An evaluation of the role of ‘biological evidence’ in zoo and aquarium enrichment practices

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal training, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, evidence-based approaches, zoo animal management, zoo research

2022

Minimizing the impact of biologging devices: Using computational fluid dynamics for optimizing tag design and positioning

Authors: William P. Kay, David S. Naumann, Hannah J. Bowen, Simon J. Withers, Benjamin J. Evans, Rory P. Wilson, Thomas B. Stringell, James C. Bull, Phil W. Hopkins, Luca Borger

Publication/Journal: Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Keywords: animal welfare, biologging, biotelemetry, computational fluid dynamics, drag, flow simulation, hydrodynamics, tag design

2019

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

Designing Better Water Troughs: Does Trough Color Influence Dairy Cows’ Preference?

Authors: Dayane Lemos Teixeira, Maria José Hötzel, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, José Daniel Cazale, Daniel Enríquez-Hidalgo

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: color, cow, drinker, preference, water

2017

Effects of visitor numbers on captive European red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and impacts on visitor experience

Authors: Eleanor E. Woolway, Anne E. Goodenough

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: activity budget, animal behavior, visitor effects, walk-through enclosure, zoo animals

2017

An assessment of animal welfare for the culling of peri-urban kangaroos

Authors: J. O. Hampton, D. M. Forsyth

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Research

Keywords: eastern grey kangaroos, ecology, european rabbit, impala aepyceros-melampus, macropus-giganteus, management, meat quality, population control, populations, responses, stress response, urban areas, urban ecology, white-tailed deer, wildlife management, zoology

2016

Few sex effects in the ontogeny of mother-offspring relationships in eastern grey kangaroos

Authors: Wendy J. King, Anne W. Goldizen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: associative behaviour, distress call, kin cluster, macropus-giganteus, mother-offspring relationship, spatial proximity, weaning

2016

How practice makes perfect: the role of persistence, flexibility and learning in problem-solving efficiency

Authors: Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Stephen E. G. Lea, Lisa A. Leaver

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: effective behaviour, efficiency, flexibility, grey squirrels, ineffective behaviour, learning, learning ability, persistence, problem solving

2016

Behavioral effects of an immunocontraceptive vaccine on eastern fox squirrels

Authors: S. K. Krause, D. H. Van Vuren, C. Laursen, D. A. Kelt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Wildlife Management

Keywords: california, eastern fox squirrel, ecology, efficacy, fertility-control, gnrh vaccine, gonacon, gonacon(tm), gray squirrels, guidelines, immunocontraception, invasive, mirror image stimulation, open field trial, personality, population control, populations, sciurus niger, species, white-tailed deer, wild, wildlife contraception, zoology

2015

Cognitive bias, hand preference and welfare of common marmosets

Authors: Dianne J. Gordon, Lesley J. Rogers

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ambiguous stimulus, common marmoset, hand preference, hemispheric dominance, welfare

2015

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