Development of an animal welfare tool for zoo-housed primates, considering intra- and inter-rater reliability

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: assessment, inter-rater reliability, intra-rater reliability, primates, tool, welfare, zoo

2024

Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota

Authors: Danielle Free, Sarah Wolfensohn

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG), cockroach, group welfare, invertebrate, quality of life, sentience, welfare

2023

An Approach to Assessing Zoo Animal Welfare in a Rarely Studied Species, the Common Cusimanse Crossarchus obscurus

Authors: Danielle Free, William SM Justice, Sarah Jayne Smith, Vittoria Howard, Sarah Wolfensohn

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: AWAG, behavior, carnivore, Crossarchus obscurus, cusimanse, evidence based, understudied, welfare, welfare assessment, zoo

2022

An Approach to Assessing Zoo Animal Welfare in a Rarely Studied Species, the Common Cusimanse Crossarchus obscurus

Authors: Danielle Free, William SM Justice, Sarah Jayne Smith, Vittoria Howard, Sarah Wolfensohn

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: AWAG, behavior, carnivore, Crossarchus obscurus, cusimanse, evidence based, understudied, welfare, welfare assessment, zoo

2022

Estimates of locomotion in Asian elephants Elephas maximus using video monitoring at Dublin Zoo, Ireland

Authors: Alison Brady, Barry J McMahon, Favel Naulty

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: CCTV video, elephas maximus, locomotion, zoo

2021

Feasibility and validity of the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid to monitor the welfare of zoo-housed gorillas Gorilla gorilla gorilla

Authors: Stijn Brouwers, Marie José Duchateau

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: Animal welfare assessment grid, keeper assessments, welfare monitoring, western lowland gorilla, zoo animal welfare

2021

The nocturnal activity of a commonly housed rodent: How African pygmy dormice (Graphiurus murinus) respond to an enriched environment

Authors: Geminni PSA Lang, Paul E Rose, Steve M Nash, Lisa M Riley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: behavioral repertoires, Graphiurus murinus, nest box, space use, welfare

2020

How environmental enrichment affects behavioral and glucocorticoid responses in captive blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna)

Authors: Ana Claudia de Almeida, Rupert Palme, Nei Moreira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, corticosterone, quality of life, stress

2018

Locomotion in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Authors: Zoe Elizabeth Rowell

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: asian elephant, locomotion, zoo

2014

Assessment of landscape-scale distribution of sympatric great apes in African rainforests: Concurrent use of nest and camera-trap surveys

Authors: Yoshihiro Nakashima, Yuji Iwata, Chieko Ando, Chimene Nze Nkoguee, Eiji Inoue, Etienne-Francois Okoue Akomo, Philippe Mbehang Nguema, Thierry Diop Bineni, Ludovic Ngok Banak, Yuji Takenoshita, Alfred Ngomanda, Juichi Yamagiwa

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: camera trap, distance sampling, gabon, nest, sympatric apes

2013

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