Human–Animal Interactions, Technology and Release Programmes in the Modern Zoo

Authors: Julia Hoy, Sarah Webber

Publication/Journal: CABI Books

Keywords: animal welfare, conservation, HAI, human-animal interactions, technology, visitor experience

2024

Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare

Authors: M Špinka

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: affective functioning, animal welfare, awareness, boredom, inter-individual differences, ontogeny

2019

Assessing animal welfare at the farm level: do we care sufficiently about the individual?

Authors: C. Winckler

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, group measures, individual measures, on-farm assessment, purpose, welfare improvement

2019

Body Condition Scores (BCS) in European zoo elephants’ (Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus) lifetimes – a longitudinal analysis

Authors: Christian Schiffmann, Marcus Clauss, Stefan Hoby, Daryl Codron, Jean-Michel Hatt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: body condition scoring, longitudinal analysis, zoo elephant

2019

Developing a Metric of Usable Space for Zoo Exhibits

Authors: Browning, Heather, Maple, Terry L.

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

Keywords: animal, exhibit, usable space, welfare, wellness, zoo

2019

A Review of Welfare Assessment Methods in Reptiles, and Preliminary Application of the Welfare Quality registered trademark Protocol to the Pygmy Blue-Tongue Skink, Tiliqua adelaidensis, Using Animal-Based Measures

Authors: Amelia L. Benn, David J. McLelland, Alexandra L. Whittaker

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: assessment tool, play, pygmy skink, reptiles, welfare

2019

Quick, Accurate, Smart: 3D Computer Vision Technology Helps Assessing Confined Animals’ Behaviour

Authors: S. Barnard, S. Calderara, S. Pistocchi, R. Cucchiara, M. Podaliri-Vulpiani, S. Messori, N. Ferri

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: 3d model, animal behaviour, captivity

2016

Relationships between temperament, feeding behaviour, social interactions, and stress in lambs adapting to a feedlot environment

Authors: Maxine Rice, Ellen Caroline Jongman, Kym Lloyd Butler, Paul Hamilton Hemsworth

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cortisol, feeding behaviour, feedlot, growth, lambs, temperament

2016

Analysis of animal monitoring technologies in Germany from an innovation system perspective

Authors: M. Busse, W. Schwerdtner, R. Siebert, A. Doernberg, A. Kuntosch, B. Konig, W. Bokelmann

Publication/Journal: Agricultural Systems

Keywords: agriculture, animal monitoring, challenges, governance, innovation processes, multidisciplinary, precision livestock farming, sectoral innovation, sensors, system, systemic intervention

2015

Bite marks in mink—Induced experimentally and as reflection of aggressive encounters between mink

Authors: Steffen W. Hansen, Steen H. Møller, Birthe M. Damgaard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, group housing, mink, welfare indicator

2014