A comprehensive investigation of negative visitor behaviour in the zoo setting and captive animals’ behavioural response
Publication/Journal: Heliyon
Keywords: animal behaviour, Circuit-study, Negative behaviour, visitors, zoo
2023
The effects of the addition of two environmental enrichments on the behavior and fecal cortisol levels of three small felids species (Caracal caracal, Leptailurus serval, Leopardus pardalis) in captivity
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: captivity, cortisol, environmental enrichment, felids
2023
Behavioural patterns in zoo-housed Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) revealed using long-term keeper-collected data: validation of approaches and improved husbandry
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity budget, captivity, ethogram, seasonal patterns, visitor effects, weather
2022
The effects of the addition of two environmental enrichments on the behavior and fecal cortisol levels of three small felids species (Caracal caracal, Leptailurus serval, Leopardus pardalis) in captivity
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, cortisol small felids, enrichment, zoo
2022
Out of Sight, Out of Mind or Just Something in the Way? Visual Barriers Do Not Reduce Intraspecific Agonism in an All-Male Group of Nile Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, evidence-based management, reptile behavior, reptile welfare, visual barriers, zoo exhibit design
2022
Behavioral Responses of Captive Corvids to the Presence of Visitors
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: animal welfare, common ravens, crows, visitor effects
2021
The effect of a new enclosure on the behaviour of a large captive group of lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: enclosure, enrichment, visitor effect
2021
Using a novel ethogram of tuatara behaviour to evaluate the impact of interactions with zoo visitors
Publication/Journal: New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Keywords: animal welfare, contact, reptile, sphenodon punctatus, visitor
2021
Human speech reduces pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) feeding and resting at a Peruvian tourist site, with louder volumes decreasing visibility
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: acoustic disturbance, ecotourism, flight initiation, pygmy marmoset
2019
Do rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, understand what others know when gaze following?
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: gaze following, rhesus macaque, theory of mind
2017