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
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
Assessing Negative Welfare Measures for Wild Invertebrates: The Case for Octopuses
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: body patterns, cephalopoda, field study, sentience
2023
The Assessment of Animal Personality and Its Uses for Improving Zoo Animal Welfare
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2023
Blood biochemistry parameters of Broad snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris subjected to stress conditions, appliying micro-volume techniques
Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology
Keywords: albumin, broad-snouted-caiman, glucose, stress, total protein
2023
Can an Enrichment Programme with Novel Manipulative and Scent Stimuli Change the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed European Wildcats? A Case Study
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: F3 semiochemical, scent enrichment programme, wildcats
2023
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in US zoos, sanctuaries, and research facilities: A survey-based comparison of species-typical behaviors
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: ape, chimpanzee, primate, species-typical behavior, welfare
2023
Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare
2023
Don’t use it? Don’t lose it! Why active use is not required for stimuli, resources or” enrichments” to have welfare value
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, zoo
2023
Effect of Social Dominance and Reproductive State on Adrenal Steroids in Female Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)
Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology
Keywords: adrenal function, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS), japanese macaques, macaca fuscata, stress response
2023