Activity budgets, responses to disturbance and novel behaviours in captive mountain chicken frogs Leptodactylus fallax

Authors: Eve Mannings, Francesca Servini, Benjamin Tapley, Christopher J Michaels

Publication/Journal: Herpetological Journal

Keywords: amphibians, behaviour, disturbance, mSPI, welfare, zoo

2023

Animals’ Relationships with Caregivers and Conspecifics are Associated with Zoo Visitors’ Perceptions of Animals’ Emotions and Welfare States

Authors: Angela M. Lacinak

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös

Keywords:

2023

Behavior Reference Intervals and Activity Budgets of Bottlenose Dolphins in Accredited Zoos and Aquariums

Authors: Lisa K. Lauderdale, Jill D. Mellen, Michael T. Walsh, Douglas A. Granger, Lance J. Miller

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, bottlenose dolphins, evidence-based husbandry, 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

Authors: Nelly Elizabeth Puc-Balam, Luis Armando Sarmiento-Franco, Pedro Geraldo González-Pech

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

Authors: Nelly Elizabeth Puc-Balam, Luis Armando Sarmiento-Franco, Pedro Geraldo González-Pech

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: Crowd noise, Exhibitor environment, habituation, ungulates, Visitors’ influx

2023

Blood biochemistry parameters of Broad snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris subjected to stress conditions, appliying micro-volume techniques

Authors: María Soledad Moleón, Gonzalo Santiago, Samuel Hilevski, Pablo Ariel Siroski

Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology

Keywords: albumin, broad-snouted-caiman, glucose, stress, total protein

2023

Can an Enrichment Programme with Novel Manipulative and Scent Stimuli Change the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed European Wildcats? A Case Study

Authors: Valentina Bertoni, Barbara Regaiolli, Alessandro Cozzi, Stefano Vaglio, Caterina Spiezio

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: F3 semiochemical, scent enrichment programme, wildcats

2023

A comparison of staff presence and signage on zoo visitor behavior

Authors: Claudia Tay, Todd J. McWhorter, Shangzhe Xie, Tiara Sophia Binte Mohd Nasir, Borja Reh, Eduardo J. Fernandez

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal–visitor interactions, interpretive, zoo visitor behavior

2023

Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science

Authors: Walter Veit, Heather Browning

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords:

2023

The effect of anthropogenic noise on foraging and vigilance in zoo housed pied tamarins

Authors: Fiene Steinbrecher, Jacob C. Dunn, Eluned C. Price, Lisa H. Buck, Claudia A. F. Wascher, Fay E. Clark

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, callitrichid, primate, stressor

2023

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