The Impact of Visitors on Non-Primate Species in Zoos: A Quantitative Review

Authors: Ellen Williams, Violet Hunton, Geoff Hosey, Samantha J Ward

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: non-primate species, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare, zoo visitors

2023

Does Handling for Public Talks in Zoos Affect the Behaviour of Captive Mexican Red-Kneed Spiders Brachypelma hamorii?

Authors: Charlotte Gresham, Fiona Mathews, Amanda Ferguson, Jamie Mitchell, Lisa Clifforde, Dave Clarke, Lewis J. Rowden

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: activity, enclosure use, handling, invertebrate, spiders, welfare

2022

Why Are Octopuses Going to Be the ‘Poster Child’ for Invertebrate Welfare?

Authors: Jennifer Mather

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: cephalopods, consciousness, intelligence, octopuses, welfare

2020

Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Authors: Aneesh P. H. Bose, Daniel Zayonc, Nikolaos Avrantinis, Natasha Ficzycz, Jonathan Fischer-Rush, Fiona T. Francis, Siobhan Gray, Faye Manning, Haley Robb, Coralee Schmidt, Christine Spice, Aari Umedaly, Jeff Warden, Isabelle M. Cote

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal welfare, Echinoderm, invertebrate, reintroduction, relocation, stress

2019

The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Authors: Claudio Carere, Jennifer A Mather

Publication/Journal: The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Keywords: animal personality, cephalopods, cognition, crustaceans, entomology, ethics, insects, invertebrates, model invertebrates, mollusks, nocireception, pain, research ethics, sentience, suffering

2019

Feeding live invertebrate prey in zoos and aquaria: Are there welfare concerns?

Authors: Martha Keller

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, invertebrate, nociception, opioid, pain

2017

The glass is not yet half empty: agitation but not Varroa treatment causes cognitive bias in honey bees

Authors: H. Schluns, H. Welling, J. R. Federici, L. Lewejohann

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: animal behavior, apidae, apis-mellifera hymenoptera, appetitive learning, aversive learning, behavioral sciences, colonies, destructor, formic acid, invertebrate emotion, invertebrate welfare, jacobsoni acari, judgment bias, olfactory conditioning, proboscis extension, proboscis extension reflex, zoology

2017

Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research -A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group

Authors: G. Fiorito, A. Affuso, J. Basil, A. Cole, P. de Girolamo, L. D'Angelo, L. Dickel, C. Gestal, F. Grasso, M. Kuba, F. Mark, D. Melillo, D. Osorio, K. Perkins, G. Ponte, N. Shashar, D. Smith, J. Smith, P. L. R. Andrews

Publication/Journal: Laboratory Animals

Keywords: 3rs, 63, aggregata-octopiana protista, animal welfare, anisakis-simplex nematoda, branchial heart, caribbean reef squid, cephalopods, complex, cuttlefish sepia-officinalis, directive 2010, eledone-cirrhosa mollusca, elevated seawater pco(2), eu, invertebrates, octopus octopus-vulgaris, sepioteuthis-sepioidea, squid, standard publication checklist, veterinary sciences, zoology

2015

A “How-To” Guide for Designing Judgment Bias Studies to Assess Captive Animal Welfare

Authors: Emily J. Bethell

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, judgement bias

2015

Preference assessments in the zoo: Keeper and staff predictions of enrichment preferences across species

Authors: Lindsay R. Mehrkam, Nicole R. Dorey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amphibian, avian, behavior, invertebrate, reptile, survey

2015

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