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
Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal sociality, centrality, collective animal behavior, eigenvectors, female contraception, gorillas, primates, social networks
2024
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
Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below ground level or ground level exhibitor and influx of visitors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, visitor effects, white-tailed deer, zoo
2023
Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below-ground-level or ground-level exhibitor and influx of visitors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: Crowd noise, Exhibitor environment, habituation, ungulates, Visitors’ influx
2023
Behavioural effects of noise on Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) in a walk-through enclosure
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: acoustic stress, animal welfare, behaviour, captivity, sound pressure, two-toed sloth
2023
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
Contrafreeloading Indicating the Behavioural Need to Forage in Healthy and Feather Damaging Grey Parrots
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: enrichment, feather damaging behaviour, feather picking, feather plucking, foraging, psittacine, psittacus erithacus
2023
Do not disturb: Visitors’ effect on the behavior and welfare of female and male big cats in zoos
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, large felids, zoo visitors
2023
Effects of Failure on California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) Gameplay Strategies and Interest in a Cognitive Task: Implications for Cognitive Enrichment in Pinnipeds
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: *animal cognition, california sea lion, cognitive enrichment, marine mammal welfare, technological enrichment
2023