Understanding Job Satisfaction and Occupational Stressors of Distinctive Roles in Zoos and Aquariums

Authors: Sabrina Brando, Patrícia Rachinas-Lopes, Vinícius D. Goulart, Lynette A. Hart

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, animal wellbeing, eudaimonic, hedonic, human wellbeing

2023

Does Observer Presence Modify the Behavior and Enclosure Use of Captive Edwards’ Pheasants?

Authors: Rhiannon Amy Hoy, James Edward Brereton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: enclosure use, Lophura edwardsi, pheasantry, Spread of participation index, welfare

2022

Discrimination of Acoustic Stimuli and Maintenance of Graded Alarm Call Structure in Captive Meerkats

Authors: Sebastian Schneider, Sarah Goettlich, Charlette Diercks, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: acoustic features, alarm calls, animal welfare, bioacoustics, fuzzy clustering, graded structure, LASSO algorithm, meerkats, natural behavior, playback experiment, suricates, vocalization, zoo

2021

Bubble trails, bursts, rings, and more: A review of multiple bubble types produced by cetaceans

Authors: K. R. Moreno, R. P. Macgregor

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: bubble, bubble burst, bubble ring, bubble trail, cetacean behavior

2019

Aggressive behaviour at regrouping is a poor predictor of chronic aggression in stable social groups

Authors: Simon P. Turner, Ian M. Nevison, Suzanne Desire, Irene Camerlink, Rainer Roehe, Sarah H. Ison, Marianne Farish, Mhairi C. Jack, Richard B. D’Eath

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, cluster analysis, fighting, lesion, pig, social

2017

The role of weighted and topological network information to understand animal social networks: a null model approach

Authors: Robert W. Rankin, Janet Mann, Lisa Singh, Eric M. Patterson, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Lars Bejder

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: bias, bottlenose dolphin, community structure, maximum entropy, network topology, social network

2016

Network characteristics and development of social structure of agonistic behaviour in pigs across three repeated rehousing and mixing events

Authors: Kathrin Büttner, Katharina Scheffler, Irena Czycholl, Joachim Krieter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agonistic behaviour, group level, pigs, social network analysis

2015

Welfare Quality® parameters do not always reflect hen behaviour across the lay cycle in non-cage laying hens

Authors: C. Daigle, J. Siegford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, group welfare, laying hen, outcome-based measures, welfare quality®

2014

Ecology of reproduction in Sanje mangabeys (Cercocebus sanjei): Dietary strategies and energetic condition during a high fruit period

Authors: Gráinne Michelle McCabe, David Fernández, Carolyn L. Ehardt

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capital breeding, nutrition, ovarian hormones, urinary c-peptide

2013

Flocking for food or flockmates?

Authors: Lucy Asher, Lisa M. Collins, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Christine J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agent-based model, group cohesion, group movements, laying hens, leadership

2013

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