The Impact of Food Enrichment on the Behavior of Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) Kept under Human Care

Authors: Isabella Brosens Barros, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Cynthia Fernandes Cipreste, Laura Chrispim Reisfeld, Thais Suzana, Rafael Gutierrez Capriolli, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranchs, environmental enrichment, fish welfare

2024

Monkeying around: Non-human primate behavioural responses to humans reproducing their facial expressions

Authors: Béatrice Luisi, Jérôme Micheletta, Eglantine Julle-Danière, Jérôme Catinaud, Laëtitia Maréchal

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: facial expressions, human-animal interaction, mimicking, primates

2023

An evaluation of interactive projections as digital enrichment for orangutans

Authors: Marcus Carter, Sally Sherwen, Sarah Webber

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: Digital enrichment, environmental enrichment, orangutan, positive reinforcement

2021

Characterization of estrous cycles and pregnancy in Somali wild asses (Equus africanus somaliensis) through fecal hormone analyses

Authors: Corinne P. Kozlowski, Helen L. Clawitter, Tim Thier, Martha T. Fischer, Cheryl S. Asa

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: equid, estrogens, gestation, progestagens

2018

Evaluating mood changes in response to anthropogenic noise with a response-slowing task in three species of zoo-housed primates

Authors: K. A. Cronin, E. J. Bethell, S. L. Jacobson, C. Egelkamp, L. M. Hopper, S. R. Ross

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: affect, gorilla gorilla, macaca fuscata, mood, noise, pan troglodytes, response slowing, zoo

2018

Visual Processing of Faces in Juvenile Western Lowland Gorillas without the Use of Training or Reinforcement: A Pilot Study

Authors: S. Chertoff, S. Margulis, J. D. Rodgers

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: eye tracking, gorilla, human, visual processing

2018

Face-based perception of emotions in dairy goats

Authors: Lucille G. A. Bellegarde, Marie J. Haskell, Christine Duvaux-Ponter, Alexander Weiss, Alain Boissy, Hans W. Erhard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ear postures, emotions, face, goats

2017

Coping strategies in captive capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.)

Authors: Renata G. Ferreira, Michael Mendl, Paulo Guilherme Carniel Wagner, Talita Araujo, Daniela Nunes, Antonieta Looman Mafra

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural plasticity, behavioural syndromes, capuchin monkeys, psychopathologies, sapajus spp., welfare

2016

Emotion Evaluation and Response Slowing in a Non-Human Primate: New Directions for Cognitive Bias Measures of Animal Emotion?

Authors: E. J. Bethell, A. Holmes, A. MacLarnon, S. Semple

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Sciences

Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal welfare, anxiety, appraisal theory, attention bias, attentional bias, decision-making, emotion evaluation, emotional stroop, faces, facial expressions, freeze, monkeys, multidisciplinary, primate, psychology, response slowing, rhesus macaque, rhesus macaques, social attention, threat cues, welfare

2016

The use of visual barriers to reduce aggression among a group of marabou storks (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)

Authors: Annie J. Valuska, Katherine A. Leighty, Paul J. Schutz, Gina M. Ferrie, Christy C. Sky, Tamara L. Bettinger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aggression, behavior, marabou stork

2013

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