A Quantitative Approach for Using Anticipatory Behavior as a Graded Welfare Assessment

Authors: Aleksei A Podturkin, Bethany L Krebs, Jason V Watters

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: appetitive behavior, pinniped, sea lion, zoo animal

2022

Supporting Zoo Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare and Herd Dynamics with a More Complex and Expanded Habitat

Authors: Sharon S Glaeser, David Shepherdson, Karen Lewis, Natalia Prado, Janine L Brown, Bob Lee, Nadja Wielebnowski

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: adrenal activity, behavior, elephant, feeding predictability, glucocorticoids, gps, habitat evaluation, locomotion, sociality, welfare

2021

Chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) behavioral responses to a visual signal preceding handling

Authors: Eli A Baskir, Sarah Kucharski, David M Powell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ambassador, contact animals, gloves, habituate, predictable

2020

Change in stingray behaviour and social networks in response to the scheduling of husbandry events

Authors: Holly L Farmer, Georgia Murphy, Joanna Newbolt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: aggression, positive reinforcement training, predictability, social network analysis, stingray, welfare

2019

A Framework to Assess the Impact of New Animal Management Technologies on Welfare: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing

Authors: Caroline Lee, Ian G. Colditz, Dana L. M. Campbell

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, cattle, cognition, cognitive activation theory of stress, livestock, sheep, virtual fencing

2018

Higher levels of submissive behaviors at the onset of the pairing process of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are associated with lower risk of wounding following introduction

Authors: Ori Pomerantz, Kate C. Baker

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: social introductions, social wounding, submissive behaviors

2017

The influence of demographic variation on social network stability in wild vervet monkeys

Authors: Christèle Borgeaud, Sebastian Sosa, Cédric Sueur, Redouan Bshary

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: centrality, dynamics of relationships, group composition variation, social network, vervet monkeys

2017

Proximity and animal welfare in the context of tourist interactions with habituated dolphins

Authors: L. Bach, M. Burton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Keywords: animal ethics, bottle-nosed dolphins, choice experiments, choice modelling, conceptual-framework, conservation, ecotourism, green & sustainable science & technology, hospitality, human/dolphin, interaction, leisure, management, national-park, sport &, sustainability, tourism, tursiops-truncatus, western-australia, wildlife

2017

Effect of predictability on the stress response to chasing in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr

Authors: Angelico Madaro, Anders Fernö, Tore S. Kristiansen, Rolf Erik Olsen, Marnix Gorissen, Gert Flik, Jonatan Nilsson

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: allostasis, conditioning, habituation, predictability, salmon, stress

2016

Unpredictability in food supply during early life influences growth and boldness in European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax

Authors: Ferrari Sébastien, Didier Leguay, Alain Vergnet, Marie-Odile Vidal, Béatrice Chatain, Marie-Laure Bégout

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavior, dicentrarchus labrax, environmental effect, exploration, food deprivation divergent strains, personality

2016

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