Skip to Content
czaw-bear
detroit zoo detroit zoo
Printout from detroitzoo.org
Date: 05/11/25
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
  • Research Projects
  • Multimedia
  • Events

Our Goals

  1. Acquire and make easily accessible to zoo and aquarium professionals the current body of knowledge on animal welfare and ethics.
  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
  3. Convene important discussions and presentations on captive exotic animal welfare and ethics.
  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
  5. Recognize advances in improving captive exotic animal welfare and ethics through awards.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=colonization

Pain and Laboratory Animals: Publication Practices for Better Data Reproducibility and Better Animal Welfare

Authors: L. Carbone, J. Austin

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: activity, critical-care, experimental surgical-procedures, killer-cell, liver-transplantation, metastatic colonization, multidisciplinary sciences, neuropathic pain, posterior parietal, reporting guidelines, spinal-cord-injury, systematic reviews

2016

Drug-Resistant Human Staphylococcus Aureus in Sanctuary Apes Pose a Threat to Endangered Wild Ape Populations

Authors: Frieder Schaumburg, Lawrence Mugisha, Bruce Peck, Karsten Becker, Thomas R. Gillespie, Georg Peters, Fabian H. Leendertz

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: africa, great apes, reintroduction, staphylococcus aureus, transmission, wildlife

2012

Colony foundation in the lesser kestrel: patterns and consequences of the occupation of empty habitat patches

Authors: Gustau Calabuig, Joaquín Ortego, Pedro J. Cordero, José Miguel Aparicio

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: breeding performance, colonial breeding, colonization, connectivity, ectoparasitism, falco naumanni, founder individual, habitat selection, lesser kestrel

2010

Relationships between locomotor behavior, morphometric characters and thyroid hormone levels give evidence of stage-dependent mechanisms in European eel upstream migration

Authors: Hélène Imbert, Rory Arrowsmith, Sylvie Dufour, Pierre Elie

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anguilla anguilla, condition factor, elver, locomotor-activity, migration, plasticity, t3, t4, thyroid hormones, yellow eel

2008

Evaluation of the enteric microflora of captive whooping cranes (Grus americana) and sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis)

Authors: Bryanne M. Hoar, Douglas P. Whiteside, Linda Ward, G. Douglas Inglis, Douglas W. Morck

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aerobic bacteria, anaerobic bacteria, campylobacter, captive wildlife, endangered species, normal flora

2007

Population genetic structure of the common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) in Uganda: evidence for a strong philopatry among warthogs and social structure breakdown in a disturbed population

Authors: Vincent B. Muwanika, Silvester Nyakaana, Hans R. Siegismund, Peter Arctander

Publication/Journal: African Journal of Ecology

Keywords: common warthog, philopatry, social-structure

2006

Extrinsic factors significantly affect patterns of disease in free-ranging and captive cheetah populations.

Authors: L. Munson, K.A Terio, M. Worley, M. Jago, A. Bagot-Smith, L. Marker

Publication/Journal: Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Keywords: acinonyx jubatus, gastritis, glomerulosclerosis, pathology, veno-occlusive disease

2005

On the relationship of social evolution and ecology in ungulates

Authors: V. Geist

Publication/Journal: american Zoologist

Keywords: ecology, relationship, social behavior, social behaviour, social evolution, ungulate

1974

  • Search

    • Search within:
Detroit Zoological Society: Detroit Zoo; Belle Isle Nature Center

Celebrating and Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

8450 W. 10 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48067 | 248-541-5717

The Detroit Zoological Society – a renowned leader in
humane education, wildlife conservation, animal welfare
and sustainability – operates the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Center.

  • © 2025 Detroit Zoological Society
Celebrating and Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Searching...