Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: Daan W. Laméris, Marina Salas, Marcel Eens, Lisa Gillespie, Nicky Staes, Jonas R. R. Torfs, Jonas Verspeek, Hilde Vervaecke, Samantha J. Ward, Jeroen M. G. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: D. W. Laméris, M. Salas, M. Eens, L. Gillespie, N. Staes, J. R. Torfs, J. Verspeek, H. Vervaecke, S. J. Ward, J. M. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Anim Welf

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Zoo Visitors’ Most-Liked Aspects of Elephant Encounters and Related Perceptions of Animals’ Emotions and Welfare States: A Pragmatic Approach

Authors: Angela M. Lacinak

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal emotions, animal experiences, animal training, animal welfare, animal–caregiver interactions, elephants, pragmatism, visitors, zoos

2024

The More the Merrier? Zoo Visitors’ Affective Responses and Perceptions of Welfare across an Increase in Giraffe Density

Authors: Wilson C Sherman, Darren E Minier, Caterina N Meyers, Michelle L Myers

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: affective experience, perceptions of animal welfare, visitor studies, zoos and aquariums

2022

How happy is your pet? The Problem of subjectivity in the assessment of companion animal welfare

Authors: J. A. Serpell

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, anthropomorphism, companion animals, health, pets, subjectivity

2019

What we can measure, we can manage: The importance of using robust welfare indicators in Equitation Science

Authors: Natalie Waran, Hayley Randle

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural expression, happy horse, negative emotion, positive emotion, welfare indicators

2017

You know what? I’m happy. Cognitive bias is not related to personality but is induced by pair-housing in canaries (Serinus canaria)

Authors: M. Lalot, D. Ung, F. Peron, P. d'Ettorre, D. Bovet

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal emotion, animal welfare, anxiety, behavioral sciences, behavioral syndromes, biological, emotions, exploration, indicator, individual differences, male great tits, neophobia, personality, psychology, serinus canaria, social enrichment, starlings sturnus-vulgaris, welfare, zebra finches, zoology

2017

Elevated corticosterone during egg production elicits increased maternal investment and promotes nestling growth in a wild songbird

Authors: E. Keith Bowers, Rachel M. Bowden, Charles F. Thompson, Scott K. Sakaluk

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: begging, egg, glucocorticoid, house wren, life history, maternal effect

2016

Use of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as an indicator of welfare in donkeys

Authors: Michela Minero, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Francesca Dai, Leigh Anne Margaret Murray, Elisabetta Canali, Francoise Wemelsfelder

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: donkeys, qualitative behaviour assessment, welfare assessment

2016

Owner perceptions of companion dog expressions of positive emotional states and the contexts in which they occur

Authors: E. L. Buckland, H. A. Volk, C. C. Burn, S. M. Abeyesinghe

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, companion dogs, owner assessments, positive emotion, survey

2014

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