Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses

Authors: Carlos Magno de Faria, Fernanda de Souza Sá, Dhiordan Deon Lovestain Costa, Mariane Mendes da Silva, Beatriz Cristiana da Silva, Robert John Young, Cristiano Schetini Azevedo

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal welfare, Cetartiodactyla, conservation, food-based enrichment

2022

A Preliminary Study Investigating the Impact of Musical Concerts on the Behavior of Captive Fiordland Penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) and Collared Peccaries (Pecari tajacu)

Authors: Lara Fanning, Hannah Larsen, Peta S Taylor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal management, music, noise, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare

2020

Measurement of cognitive bias and cortisol levels to evaluate the effects of space restriction on captive collared peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

Authors: Flávia R. M. Oliveira, Sérgio L. G. Nogueira-Filho, Maria B. C. Sousa, Carlos T. S. Dias, Michael Mendl, Selene S. C. Nogueira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, judgement bias, stress

2016

Assessment of temperament traits of white-lipped (Tayassu pecari) and collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) during handling in a farmed environment

Authors: S. S. C. Nogueira, J. F. Macêdo, A. C. Sant'Anna, S. L. G. Nogueira-Filho, M. J. R. Paranhos da Costa

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, domestication, handling, peccary, reactivity, wildlife farming

2015

Nitrogen requirements of white-lipped peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

Authors: Sérgio L. G. Nogueira-Filho, Rogério M. Borges, Alcester Mendes, Carlos T. S. Dias

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal nutrition, balance trials, comparative physiology, endogenous urinary nitrogen, metabolic fecal nitrogen, wildlife feeding

2014

The natural place to begin: The ethnoprimatology of the Waorani

Authors: Sarah Papworth, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Katie Slocombe

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: amazon, ecological knowledge, ethnobiology, lagothrix, yasuní national park

2013

The effect of environmental enrichment on play behaviour in white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari)

Authors: S. S. C. Nogueira, J. P. Soledade, Pomp,, S. ia, S. L. G. Nogueira-Filho

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, captive breeding, endangered species, play behaviour, social behaviour, social dominance

2011

Effects of varying feed provision on behavioral patterns of farmed collared peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

Authors: Selene S. C. Nogueira, Stella G. Calazans, Thaise S. O. Costa, Hélderes Peregrino, Sérgio L. G. Nogueira-Filho

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, feeding, predictability, unpredictability, wildlife farming

2011

Social behaviour of collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) under three space allowances

Authors: SS da C Nogueira, M.G. Silva, CT dos S Dias, S. Pompéia, M. Cetra, S.L.G. Nogueira-Filho

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, captive breeding, collared peccary, shelter usage, social behaviour, wildlife farming

2010

Comparative digestion studies in wild suids at Rotterdam Zoo

Authors: Marcus Clauss, Joeke Nijboer, Jochem H. M. Loermans, Thomas Roth, Jan Van der Kuilen, Anton C. Beynen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: babirusa, digestion, feeding, nutrition, peccary, red river hog, warthog, warty pig, wild boar

2008

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