Quality-of-Life Assessments in Zoo Animals: Not Just for the Aged and Charismatic
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, assessment, decision-making, euthanasia, geriatric, quality of life, zoo animal
2023
Choice, Control and Computers: Empowering Wildlife in Human Care
Publication/Journal: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Keywords: animal-centered technology (ACT), captive, choice, conservation, enrichment, exhibit, reintroduction, wildlife, zoo
2020
Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers
2020
An evidence-based decision assistance model for predicting training outcome in juvenile guide dogs
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: decision assistance model, guide dogs
2017
Investigating temporary acyclicity in a captive group of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Relationship between management, adrenal activity and social factors
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, birth synchrony, central mechanisms, chemical communication, dominance status, endocrinology & metabolism, enzyme immunoassay, estrous synchrony, glucocorticoids, loxodonta-africana elephants, management, oestrous synchrony, ovarian activity, reproduction, reproductive cyclicity, temporary acyclicity, zoo elephants
2016
Degree of synchrony based on individual observations underlines the importance of concurrent access to enrichment materials in finishing pigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: enrichment object, exploratory behaviour, feeding regime, synchronous
2015
Defining and assessing animal pain
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, invertebrates, nociception, pain, vertebrates
2014
Individual Effects of Seasonal Changes, Visitor Density, and Concurrent Bear Behavior on Stereotypical Behaviors in Captive Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: polar bear, stereotypy
2014
Assessment of landscape-scale distribution of sympatric great apes in African rainforests: Concurrent use of nest and camera-trap surveys
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: camera trap, distance sampling, gabon, nest, sympatric apes
2013
Cortical Networks for Ethologically Relevant Behaviors in Primates
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: grasping, motor cortex, posterior parietal cortex, prosimians
2013