Assessing Giraffe Welfare During Seasonal Habitat Changes in Northern US Zoos
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, enclosure, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, giraffe, recumbency
2024
A Comparative Multi-Zoo Survey Investigating the Housing and Husbandry of Callimico goeldii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: callitrichid, captive management, enclosure complexity, goeldi's monkey, welfare
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
An enclosure quality ranking framework for terrestrial animals in captivity
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: captivity, environment, evidence-based conservation, framework, welfare, zoo animals
2024
Enriched social environment affects the utterance of acoustic signals of captive François’ langurs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, social enrichment, vocal communication, vocal repertoire
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
The Impact of Food Enrichment on the Behavior of Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) Kept under Human Care
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranchs, environmental enrichment, fish welfare
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
Kibble diet is associated with higher faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-managed red wolves (Canis rufus)
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: animal welfare, diet, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, Red wolf, zoo management
2024
Nutrition in captive penguins: What do we know about how can we make it better?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal nutrition, energy requirements, feeding guidelines, polar habitat, spheniscidae
2024