Activity budget and behaviour of giant otters Pteronura brasiliensis at Parken Zoo, Eskilstuna, Sweden

Authors: Mélodie Friedmann, Anita Burkevica, Linn Lagerström, Jenny Gustafsson, Julia Johnsson, Peter Lundgren, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: activity budget, behaviour, feeding enrichment, Pteronura brasiliensis, welfare, zoo

2023

Providing baseline data for conservation–Heart rate monitoring in captive scimitar-horned oryx

Authors: Peter Leimgruber, Nucharin Songsasen, Jared A Stabach, Megan Horning, Dolores Reed, Tara Buk, Arielle Harwood, Lawrence Layman, Christopher Mathews, Morgan Vance

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Physiology

Keywords: heart rate monitoring, oryx

2023

Supporting Geriatric Zoo Animal Welfare Through Nutrition

Authors: Francis Cabana, Amy Plowman

Publication/Journal: Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care

Keywords: aging, digestion, geriatric, nutrition, welfare

2023

Surgical placement of implantable cardiac loop recorders in great apes

Authors: Ilana Kutinsky, Ann Duncan, Marietta D Danforth, Suzan Murray, Julie Napier, Stephanie McCain, Hayley W Murphy

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: great apes, loop recorders, surgery

2023

Trigger of twin-fights in captive common marmosets

Authors: Miki Miwa, Yusuke Hamazaki, Hiroki Koda, Katsuki Nakamura

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: birth control, common marmoset, interbirth interval, twin-fight

2023

Observations on the use of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags in teleosts and elasmobranchs at a public aquarium, 728 cases, 2007–2020

Authors: Jessica McMurrer, Aubrey McElhiney, Kerry McNally, Charles J Innis

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: elasmobranch, fish welfare, PIT tags, teleost

2022

Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)

Authors: Samrat Mondol, Rebecca K Booth, Samuel K %J Conservation Physiology Wasser

Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology

Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers

2020

Testing use of a potential cognitive enrichment device by an Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)

Authors: Eszter Matrai, Angela KW Ng, Michelle MH Chan, Suzanne M Gendron, Kathleen M Dudzinski

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive challenge, dolphin, problem solving

2020

Zoo‐housed mammals do not avoid giving birth on weekends

Authors: Geoff Hosey, Samantha J Ward, Amanda Ferguson, Hannah Jenkins, Sonya P Hill

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: stress response, visitor effect, weekend effect, welfare, zoo visitors

2020

Investigation of the efficacy of the GnRH agonist deslorelin in mitigating intraspecific aggression in captive male Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis)

Authors: Jessica J. Harley, Aisling Power, John D. Stack

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: agonistic behavior androgens, bachelor groups, testosterone

2019