Advancing zoo animal welfare through data science: scaling up continuous improvement efforts
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, artificial intelligence, continuous improvement, data science, evidence-based decision making, machine learning, zoo
2024
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
Activity budgets, responses to disturbance and novel behaviours in captive mountain chicken frogs Leptodactylus fallax
Publication/Journal: Herpetological Journal
Keywords: amphibians, behaviour, disturbance, mSPI, welfare, zoo
2023
Age-Related Change in the Association Choices of Two Species of Juvenile Flamingos
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal husbandry, animal welfare, association, behavioural development, enclosure use, flamingo
2023
Animals’ Relationships with Caregivers and Conspecifics are Associated with Zoo Visitors’ Perceptions of Animals’ Emotions and Welfare States
Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös
Keywords:
2023
Assessing the impact of environmental enrichment on behavior in understudied armadillo species: A case study
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, armadillo, environmental enrichment, evidence-based husbandry, zoo behavior
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: 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
Behavioural effects of a giraffe public feeding programme on Masai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi and plains zebra Equus quagga in a mixed-species exhibit
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: giraffe, mixed-species enclosure, public feeding, zoo
2023