Modification of Domestic Animal Lameness Scales for Use in Asiatic Black Bears (Ursus thibetanus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: asiatic black bear, bear lameness scale, lameness assessment, locomotion, Ursus spp., Ursus thibetanus, welfare assessment
2023
A new voluntary blood collection method for the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) and Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: blood collection, facility, operant conditioning training, positive reinforcement, venipuncture, zoo
2015
Activity and enrichment use in disabled Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) rescued from bile farms
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, asiatic black bear, blindness, environmental enrichment, limb aputation, physical disability
2012
Compromised health and welfare of bears farmed for bile in China
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, asiatic black bear, bear bile, bile farming, china, gall bladder
2009
Development of a noncontact and long-term respiration monitoring system using microwave radar for hibernating black bear
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: hibernation, japanese black bear, microwave radar, monitoring, noncontact, respiratory rate
2009
Stereotypy and perseverative responding in caged bears: further data and analyses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: asiatic black bear, malayan sun bear, perseveration, persistence, stereotypy, striatal dysfunction
2005
Stereotypic behavior in Asiatic black and Malayan sun bears
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: abnormal behavior, emancipation, establishment, pacing, stereotypy, ursid
2004
Effects of feeding enrichment on behavior of three species of captive bears
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: log-linear analyses, selenarctos thibetanus, stereotypy, ursus arctos middendorffii, ursus maritimus
1992
Environmental enrichment for zoo bears
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: cage furnishings, feeding, foraging, husbandry procedures, object manipulation, stereotypic behavior
1991