Optimism about Measuring Animal Feelings

Authors: Heather Browning, Walter Veit

Publication/Journal: Asian Bioethics Review

Keywords:

2023

Primate cognition in zoos: Reviewing the impact of zoo‐based research over 15 years

Authors: Emma S McEwen, Elizabeth Warren, Sadie Tenpas, Benjamin Jones, Kresimir Durdevic, Emilie Rapport Munro, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: cognition, primate, zoo

2022

Welfare Assessment Tools in Zoos: From Theory to Practice

Authors: Narelle Jones, Sally L. Sherwen, Rachel Robbins, David J. McLelland, Alexandra L. Whittaker

Publication/Journal: Veterinary Sciences

Keywords: animal-based, Five Domains, resource-based, scoring, validity, zoo animal welfare

2022

Can Aquatic Invertebrates within Public Aquaria Fit the Five Domain Welfare Model?

Authors: Kerry Perkins

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research

Keywords: aquarium, aquatic invertebrates, Five Domains, welfare

2021

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

Authors: Matthias Allritz, Emma Suvi McEwen, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Cognition

Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference

2021

Getting It Straight: Accommodating Rectilinear Behavior in Captive Snakes—A Review of Recommendations and Their Evidence Base

Authors: Clifford Warwick, Rachel Grant, Catrina Steedman, Tiffani J Howell, Phillip C Arena, Angelo JL Lambiris, Ann-Elizabeth Nash, Mike Jessop, Anthony Pilny, Melissa Amarello

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: body posture, enclosure size, literature review, reptile husbandry, space

2021

Using Keeper Questionnaires to Capture Zoo-Housed Tiger (Panthera tigris) Personality: Considerations for Animal Management

Authors: Natalie Bullock, Charlotte James, Ellen Williams

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: amur tiger, animal husbandry, Keeper expertise, personality, sumatran tiger, welfare

2021

Welfare of animals in captivity: expose on diversity, enclosure size and enrichment, food and feeding regime in some zoos in South-West Nigeria

Authors: OO Ajayi, AA Alarape

Publication/Journal: Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment

Keywords: animal welfare, captive breeding, conservation, zoo

2021

Beyond Glucocorticoids: Integrating Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) into Animal Welfare Research

Authors: Jessica C Whitham, Jocelyn L Bryant, Lance J Miller

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate, dhea, glucocorticoids, ratio

2020

Deflighting zoo birds and its welfare considerations

Authors: L. Reese, M. Ladwig-Wiegard, L. von Fersen, G. Haase, H. Will, R. Merle, D. Encke, H. Maegdefrau, K. Baumgartner, C. Thöne-Reineke

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, birds, deflighting, pinioning, wing-clipping, zoo

2020