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
Assessing Giraffe Welfare During Seasonal Habitat Changes in Northern US Zoos
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, enclosure, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, giraffe, recumbency
2024
A Comparative Multi-Zoo Survey Investigating the Housing and Husbandry of Callimico goeldii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: callitrichid, captive management, enclosure complexity, goeldi's monkey, welfare
2024
Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis
2024
Acoustic Monitoring of Professionally Managed Marine Mammals for Health and Welfare Insights
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: acoustic welfare, anthropogenic sound, marine mammal welfare
2023
Are Dolphins Kept in Impoverished Environments?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, captivity, cetacea, cognitive enrichment, dolphins, impoverishment
2023
Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG), cockroach, group welfare, invertebrate, quality of life, sentience, welfare
2023
Behavioural Indicators of Pain and Suffering in Arthropods and Might Pain Bite Back?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: Chelicerata, contests, Mandibulata, nociception, pain, traumatic mating, venom
2023
Changes in Environment and Management Practices Improve Foot Health in Zoo-Housed Flamingos
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: bumblefoot, enclosure design, pododermatitis, welfare, zoo enclosure
2023
Characterization of Current Husbandry and Veterinary Care Practices of the Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) Using an Online Survey
Publication/Journal: Veterinary Sciences
Keywords: anesthesia, octopus, sedation, veterinary
2023