Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare
2023
Tactile responses to environmental enrichment in captive Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, Exploratory behaviours, Infant lifting, Tactile behaviours
2023
TACTILE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT IN CAPTIVE ANTILLEAN MANATEES (Trichechus manatus manatus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: communication, manatees, tactile signals
2023
Does Handling for Public Talks in Zoos Affect the Behaviour of Captive Mexican Red-Kneed Spiders Brachypelma hamorii?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: activity, enclosure use, handling, invertebrate, spiders, welfare
2022
Enrichment with classical music enhances affiliative behaviours in bottlenose dolphin
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: bottlenose dolphin, captive, cetacean, enrichment, social behavior, zoo
2022
The effect of different types of environmental enrichment on Humboldt penguin Spheniscus humboldti behaviour
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: enrichment, feed, island, minnows, penguins, sticks
2021
Evaluation of a pressure sensitive walkway for objective gait analysis in normal and arthritic domestic ducks (Cairina moschata domestica)
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: analgesia, carprofen, encapsulated butorphanol tartate, footpad dermatitis, force platform, hydrochloride, lameness, pain, parrots amazona-vertralis
2019
Assessment of behavior and space use before and after forelimb amputation in a zoo-housed chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: adaptability, disability, management, post-operative care, recovery
2017
Cognitive bias and paw preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: *animal cognition, *choice behavior, *cognitive bias, *lateral dominance, *preferences, animal sex differences, dogs, motor processes
2017
Introducing Clicker Training as a Cognitive Enrichment for Laboratory Mice
Publication/Journal: Journal of Visualized Experiments
Keywords: 3rs, anxiety, balb/c, behavior, clicker training, enrichment, environmental enrichment, issue 121, mouse, multidisciplinary sciences, pigs, positive reinforcement training, rats, refinement, stress response, welfare, well-being
2017