Assessing chimpanzees’ fluency of movement: applications for monitoring health and welfare
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aging, geriatric care, locomotion, mobility, primate, quality of life
2022
Behavioural Development of Three Former Pet Chimpanzees a Decade after Arrival at the MONA Sanctuary
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: activity budget, chimpanzee, early life experience, pan troglodytes, pet and entertainment, re-socialization, sanctuary, well-being
2022
Cognitive enrichment in a social setting: assessing the use of a novel food maze in sanctuary-housed chimpanzees
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: chimpanzee, cognitive, enrichment, food maze
2022
Confronting back-of-house traditions: Primates as a case study
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: 24/7, animal welfare, back-of-house (BOH), integrated zoo design model, primate research laboratory, primate sanctuary, primates, zoo, zoo design
2022
An evaluation of thermal imaging as a welfare monitoring tool for captive chimpanzees
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: behavioral observation, chimpanzees, thermal imaging, welfare
2021
Chimpanzees’(Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: chimpanzees, experience effect, housing facility, physical cognition, problem-solving skills
2020
Large brains in small tanks: intelligence and social complexity as an ethical issue for captive dolphins and whales
Publication/Journal: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals
Keywords: captivity, cetacean, health, sanctuary, stress, well-being
2020
Making a Tiger’s Day: Free-Operant Assessment and Environmental Enrichment to Improve the Daily Lives of Captive Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris)
Publication/Journal: Behavior Analysis in Practice
Keywords: environmental enrichment, free operant, preference assessment, tigers
2020
Understanding the Behavior of Sanctuary-Housed Chimpanzees During Public Programs
Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös
Keywords: ethnoprimatology, human-animal interaction, primate, sanctuary, space use, welfare
2020
Looking for Visitor’s Effect in Sanctuaries: Implications of Guided Visitor Groups on the Behavior of the Chimpanzees at Fundació Mona
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: behavior, captivity, chimpanzee, human interaction, sanctuary, visitor effect, welfare
2019