A Conceptual Model for Understanding Types of Visitor Effects and Suggestions for Improving Visitor Effects Research
Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice
Keywords: animal behavior, animal visitor interaction (AVI), emotional arousal, five domains model, visitor effects
2024
Visitor impacts on social dynamics and space use in captive Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in a naturalistic zoo exhibit: A new methodological approach
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: human-animal interactions, Naturalistic zoo exhibit, Ripley’s function, visitor effect, western lowland gorilla, zoo animal welfare
2024
Factors Influencing the Development of Human–Animal Relationships at SeaWorld Entertainment Parks
Publication/Journal: Aquatic Mammals
Keywords:
2023
Impact of alternating overnight housing conditions on welfare measures in a bachelor group of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: animal welfare, bachelor groups, gorilla, overnight housing
2022
Concepts, applications, uses and evaluation of environmental enrichment
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: barriers to enrichment, food-based bias, keeper opinions, taxonomic bias, workshop
2020
The Four Cs of Modern (Neuro) ethology and Neuroethics: Cognition, Complexity, Conation, and Culture
Publication/Journal: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals
Keywords: affective neuroscience, cognition, complexity, conation, culture, social neuroscience
2020
Inter-individual Distance in Different Captive Packs of Iberian Wolf (Canis lupus signatus): Management Applications
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: canids, dyad, proximity, social preference, two-dimensional scaling analysis
2020
Social interaction analysis in captive orcas (Orcinus orca)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captivity, consilliatory tendency, ethogram, orcas, social behavior
2019
Which Wild Aardvarks Are Most Suitable for Outdoor Enclosures in Zoological Gardens in the European Union?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, climate, movement activity, orycteropus afer, temperature
2018
Behavioural testing based breeding policy reduces the prevalence of fear and aggression related behaviour in Rottweilers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aggression, behavioural testing, c-barq, dog, fear, prevalence
2017