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
Behavioral interactions and glucocorticoid production of Somali wild ass (Equus africanus somaliensis) mothers and foals
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: affiliative behavior, agonistic behavior, equid, fecal hormone, mother-offspring, nursing
2021
Monitoring the welfare of giraffes in two Belgian zoos
Publication/Journal: BIAZA Research Symposium
Keywords: giraffes, interspecific aggression, oral stereotypies, positive welfare indicators, welfare
2021
A Ten-Stage Protocol for Assessing the Welfare of Individual Non-Captive Wild Animals: Free-Roaming Horses (Equus Ferus Caballus) as an Example
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: feral, Five Domains, free-roaming, horses, welfare assessment, wild, wildlife
2020
Reliability of a descriptive reference ethogram for equitation science
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: equine, ethogram, structural behavioral definitions
2019
Characterization of estrous cycles and pregnancy in Somali wild asses (Equus africanus somaliensis) through fecal hormone analyses
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: equid, estrogens, gestation, progestagens
2018
A comparison of fecal steroid metabolite concentrations between harem and bachelor stallions in a free-Ranging population of przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus przewalskii)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: epi-andosterone, estrogen, sociosexual hierarchy, testosterone
2017
Do horses with poor welfare show ‘pessimistic’ cognitive biases?
Publication/Journal: Science of Nature
Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, back-pain, behavioral-disorders, cognitive judgement biases, enrichment, environmental, equus-caballus, horses, judgment bias, laboratory rats, management factors, multidisciplinary sciences, rattus-norvegicus, starlings sturnus-vulgaris
2017
A functional approach to the body condition assessment of lactating donkeys as a tool for welfare evaluation
Publication/Journal: Peerj
Keywords: adiposity, body condition, condition score, disorders, domestic horses, donkey, equus-asinus, fatty neck score, milk, morphometric measurements, multidisciplinary sciences, ponies, prevalence, risk-factors, welfare
2017
An animal welfare assessment framework for helicopter darting: a case study with a newly developed method for feral horses
Publication/Journal: Wildlife Research
Keywords: behavioral-responses, behaviour, chemical immobilization, drive, ecology, ethics, field immobilization, human dimensions, management, medetomidine-ketamine, nets, radio telemetry, reversible immobilization, stress, tiletamine-zolazepam, tranquilizer darts, white-tailed deer, wildlife, xylazine hydrochloride, zoology
2016