Allostatic Load Indices With Cholesterol and Triglycerides Predict Disease and Mortality Risk in Zoo-Housed Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Authors: Ashley N Edes, Katie L Edwards, Barbara A Wolfe, Janine L Brown, Douglas E Crews

Publication/Journal: Biomarker Insights

Keywords: animal welfare, cardiac disease, chronic conditions, lipid markers, nonhuman primates

2020

Directions in animal enclosure use studies

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: Electivity Index, enclosure use, evidence-based zoo animal management, exhibit design, Spread of participation index

2020

Music for Monkeys: Building Methods to Design with White-Faced Sakis for Animal-Driven Audio Enrichment Devices

Authors: Roosa Piitulainen, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal technology, animal-computer-interaction, audio enrichment, white-faced saki

2020

Personality traits modulate stress responses after enclosure change of captive capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)

Authors: Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira, Elanne De Paiva Fonseca, Ana Cecilia Correia Santos Das Chagas, Luiz Guilherme Mesquita Pinheiro, Maria Bernardete Cordeiro de Sousa, Hélderes Peregrino Alves Da Silva, Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho, Renata Gonçalves Ferreira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal personality, animal welfare, captivity, enclosure change, individual differences, primates

2020

Understanding the Behavior of Sanctuary-Housed Chimpanzees During Public Programs

Authors: Bethany K Hansen, Lydia M Hopper, Amy L Fultz, Stephen R Ross

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös

Keywords: ethnoprimatology, human-animal interaction, primate, sanctuary, space use, welfare

2020

Using a Touchscreen Paradigm to Evaluate Food Preferences and Response to Novel Photographic Stimuli of Food in Three Primate Species (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Macaca fuscata)

Authors: Sarah M Huskisson, Sarah L Jacobson, Crystal L Egelkamp, Stephen R Ross, Lydia M Hopper

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords: photograph, preference testing, primate, touchscreen, welfare, worth valuations

2020

Why the “Visitor Effect” Is Complicated. Unraveling Individual Animal, Visitor Number, and Climatic Influences on Behavior, Space Use and Interactions With Keepers—A Case Study on Captive Hornbills

Authors: Paul E Rose, Jake S Scales, James E Brereton

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: bird behavior, black-casqued hornbill, Ceratogymna atrata, keeper effect, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare

2020

Zoo visitors affect sleep, displacement activities, and affiliative and aggressive behaviors in captive ebony langurs (Trachypithecus auratus)

Authors: Allison M Roth, Marina Cords

Publication/Journal: acta ethologica

Keywords: behavior, captivity, displacement, langurs, primates, sleep, visitor studies

2020

Zoo‐housed mammals do not avoid giving birth on weekends

Authors: Geoff Hosey, Samantha J Ward, Amanda Ferguson, Hannah Jenkins, Sonya P Hill

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: stress response, visitor effect, weekend effect, welfare, zoo visitors

2020

Aggression and social support predict long-term cortisol levels in captive tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus Sapajus apella)

Authors: Allie E. Schrock, Corinne Leard, Meredith C. Lutz, Jerrold S. Meyer, Regina Paxton Gazes

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: hair cortisol, information centrality, social network analysis, stress

2019

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