Assessing Giraffe Welfare During Seasonal Habitat Changes in Northern US Zoos
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, enclosure, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, giraffe, recumbency
2024
A Comparative Multi-Zoo Survey Investigating the Housing and Husbandry of Callimico goeldii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: callitrichid, captive management, enclosure complexity, goeldi's monkey, welfare
2024
Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play
2024
Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below ground level or ground level exhibitor and influx of visitors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, visitor effects, white-tailed deer, zoo
2023
Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below-ground-level or ground-level exhibitor and influx of visitors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: Crowd noise, Exhibitor environment, habituation, ungulates, Visitors’ influx
2023
Blood pressure monitoring in zoologically managed bonobos (Pan paniscus)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: blood pressure monitoring, bonobos, zoo
2023
Brown Bear Cognition and Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases
Keywords: animal welfare, bears, cognition, cognitive stimulation, ursids
2023
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in US zoos, sanctuaries, and research facilities: A survey-based comparison of species-typical behaviors
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: ape, chimpanzee, primate, species-typical behavior, welfare
2023
Factors affecting captive female giraffe stress response: Male presence, small enclosure, and low temperature
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: agonistic interaction, conflict management, noninvasive hormone monitoring, social housing condition, social rank
2023
Getting to the Meat of It: The Effects of a Captive Diet upon the Skull Morphology of the Lion and Tiger
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: captivity, conservation, development, linear morphometrics, ontogeny, panthera, phenotypic plasticity, taxonomy, welfare, wild
2023