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
A comprehensive investigation of negative visitor behaviour in the zoo setting and captive animals’ behavioural response
Publication/Journal: Heliyon
Keywords: animal behaviour, Circuit-study, Negative behaviour, visitors, zoo
2023
Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords:
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
Giraffes make decisions based on statistical information
Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports
Keywords:
2023
Handling and Training of Wild Animals: Evidence and Ethics-Based Approaches and Best Practices in the Modern Zoo
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: 3rs, animal training, animal wellbeing, capacity building, human-animal relationship, learning, positive reinforcement, refinement, zoo animals
2023
Multi-sensor biologgers and innovative training allow data collection with high conservation and welfare value in zoos
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: behaviour, biologging, captivity, daily diary, dead-reckoning, enrichment, space use, welfare
2023
Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care
Publication/Journal:
Keywords: ageing, animal welfare, animal well-being, environmental enrichment, exhibit design, facility design, geriatric animal, pain management, physiotherapy, veterinary care
2023
Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)
Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition
Keywords:
2023
Sonic enrichment at the zoo: What will the zoo of the future sound like?
Publication/Journal: Interaction Studies
Keywords: animal agency, animal control, animal enrichment, animal ethics, animal wellbeing, animal-computer-interaction, audio enrichment, interspecies enrichment, sonic enrichment, zoo interactive systems, zoo technology
2023