Advancing zoo animal welfare through data science: scaling up continuous improvement efforts

Authors: Liptovszky,Matyas

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare, artificial intelligence, continuous improvement, data science, evidence-based decision making, machine learning, zoo

2024

A Reexamination of the Relationship between Training Practices and Welfare in the Management of Ambassador Animals

Authors: Steve Martin, Grey Stafford, David S. Miller

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ambassador animal, choice, control, enrichment, institutional support, punishment, reinforcement, staff development, training

2024

A Reexamination of the Relationship between Training Practices and Welfare in the Management of Ambassador Animals

Authors: Steve Martin, Grey Stafford, David S. Miller

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ambassador animal, choice, control, enrichment, institutional support, punishment, reinforcement, staff development, training

2024

Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science

Authors: Walter Veit, Heather Browning

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords:

2023

A novel method for automatically analysing the activity of fast-moving animals: a case study of Callimico goeldii monkeys housed in a zoological garden

Authors: Nieckarz Zenon, Nowicki Jacek, Labocha Karolina, Pawlak Krzysztof

Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports

Keywords:

2023

The perception of felid welfare by zookeepers in North America and the implications for zoo managers

Authors: Brian Ogle, Annabel DeSmet

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare management, felids, five freedoms, zookeepers, zoos

2023

Effects of parity and litter size on cortisol measures in commercially housed sows and their offspring

Authors: Sanne Roelofs, Lisa Godding, Jeanne R. de Haan, Franz Josef van der Staay, Rebecca E. Nordquist

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: birth weight, hair cortisol, pigs, salivary cortisol, stress

2019

Preparing for Life After Birth: Introducing the Concepts of Intrauterine and Extrauterine Sensory Entrainment in Mammalian Young

Authors: David J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: fetal sensory systems, in utero sensory environment, learning, memory, neuroplasticity, sensory development after birth, sensory maturity at birth, trans-natal sensory continuity

2019

Injections to pregnant mice produce prenatal stress that affects aggressive behavior in their adult male offspring

Authors: Monika Ogrizek, Neža Grgurevič, Tomaž Snoj, Gregor Majdič

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: aggressive behavior, calbindin, immunohistochemistry, mouse, prenatal stress, sexual behavior, testosterone, vassopressin

2018

Maternal effects on offspring stress physiology in wild chimpanzees

Authors: Carson M. Murray, Margaret A. Stanton, Kaitlin R. Wellens, Rachel M. Santymire, Matthew R. Heintz, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: chimpanzees, gestational programming, maternal effects, offspring stress

2018