Assessing Visitor Effects on Zoo Animals
Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice
Keywords: animal welfare, HAI, human-animal interactions, visitor effects
2024
Automatic detection of stereotypical behaviors of captive wild animals based on surveillance videos of zoos and animal reserves
Publication/Journal: Ecological Informatics
Keywords: animal tracking, animal welfare, captive animal, Motion trajectory, Siamese network, stereotypical behavior
2024
Does zoo visitor presence and noise impact the behaviour and enclosure use of zoo-housed Siamese crocodiles? A case study
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: crocodilian, Electivity Index, enclosure design, post-occupancy evaluation, visitor presence
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
Hibernating or not hibernating? Brown bears’ response to a mismatch between environmental natural cues and captive management, and its welfare implications
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal welfare, captive management, cues, environment, physiology
2024
Moult phenology and the influence of breeding activity in adult African penguins Spheniscus demersus at Allwetterzoo Münster, Germany
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: captive management, husbandry practice, jackass penguin
2024
Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in captive olive baboons (Papio anubis): The effects of age, sex, rearing, stress, and pregnancy
Publication/Journal: Am J Primatol
Keywords: *Papio anubis/genetics/physiology, age factors, animals, baboons, early adversity, female, lymphocytes, male, neutrophil‐lymphocyte ratio, neutrophils, physiological, pregnancy, sex factors, stress
2024
Tortoise Husbandry and Welfare
Publication/Journal:
Keywords: dietary requirements, habitat design, husbandry, tortoise, welfare
2024
The Visitor Effect in Primates
Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice
Keywords: physiological measures, primate behaviors, primates, space use, visitor effects
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