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 zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival
2024
Detailed Comparison of Acoustic Signals from Rehabilitated and Wild Franciscanas (Pontoporia blainvillei) Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: acoustic monitoring, animal communication, animal welfare, bycatch, NBHF species, Pontoporia blainvillei, rehabilitation
2024
An Ecological and Neural Argument for Developing Pursuit-Based Cognitive Enrichment for Sea Lions in Human Care
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: cognitive enrichment, enrichment, goal-based cognition, hunting, pursuit, sea lions
2024
Effects of nocturnal outdoor enclosure access on space use and sleep-related behaviour in captive giraffes
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal welfare, housing management, lying down, modified SPI, recumbent posture
2024
Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play
2024
First noncontact millimeter-wave radar measurement of heart rate in great apes: Validation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Publication/Journal: Am J Primatol
Keywords: *Pan troglodytes/physiology, *Radar, animal welfare, animals, Electrocardiography/veterinary/instrumentation, female, heart rate, male, millimeter‐wave ultrawide‐band array radar, noncontact measurement of vital sign, stress
2024
In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity
2024
Influence of food physical properties and environmental context on manipulative behaviors highlighted by new methodological approaches in zoo-housed bonobos (Pan paniscus)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: bonobos, evolution, manipulative abilities, nonhuman primate, pan paniscus
2024
Repeatability of measures of behavioral organization over two years in captive infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: biobehavioral assessment, emotionality, infant temperament, macaca-mulatta, personality-traits, rhesus macaque
2024