Advancing zoo animal welfare through data science: scaling up continuous improvement efforts
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, artificial intelligence, continuous improvement, data science, evidence-based decision making, machine learning, zoo
2024
Automatic detection of stereotypical behaviors of captive wild animals based on surveillance videos of zoos and animal reserves
Publication/Journal: Ecological Informatics
Keywords: animal tracking, animal welfare, captive animal, Motion trajectory, Siamese network, stereotypical behavior
2024
Effects of Seasonality and Pregnancy on Hair Loss and Regrowth in Rhesus Macaques
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: alopecia, anagen, hair regrowth, macaca-mulatta, macaque, pregnancy, telogen
2024
Environmental Enrichment in Rabbit Husbandry: Comparative Impacts on Performance and Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: behavior, environmental stress, housing enrichment, productive performance, rabbit, sensors, welfare
2024
First noncontact millimeter-wave radar measurement of heart rate in great apes: Validation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Publication/Journal: Am J Primatol
Keywords: *Pan troglodytes/physiology, *Radar, animal welfare, animals, Electrocardiography/veterinary/instrumentation, female, heart rate, male, millimeter‐wave ultrawide‐band array radar, noncontact measurement of vital sign, stress
2024
Introducing the Mellorater—The Five Domains Model in a Welfare Monitoring App for Animal Guardians
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal husbandry, end-of-life decisions, quality of life, welfare assessment
2024
Measuring heart rate in captive chimpanzees without anesthesia
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: chimpanzees, heart rate measurements
2024
Nutrition in captive penguins: What do we know about how can we make it better?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal nutrition, energy requirements, feeding guidelines, polar habitat, spheniscidae
2024
Play That Trunky Music: Development of an Auditory Enrichment Device for Elephants in Zoos
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction
Keywords: african elephant, auditory enrichment, loxodonta africana
2024
Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba
2024