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Bottlenose dolphins’(Tursiops Truncatus) Visual and Motor Laterality Depending on Emotional Contexts

Authors: Aviva Charles, Birgitta Mercera, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: cetaceans, emotion, laterality, tursiops-truncatus, visual processing, welfare

2021

A Comparative Perspective on Three Primate Species’ Responses to a Pictorial Emotional Stroop Task

Authors: Lydia M Hopper, Matthias Allritz, Crystal L Egelkamp, Sarah M Huskisson, Sarah L Jacobson, Jesse G Leinwand, Stephen R Ross

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affect, attentional bias, emotions, snake detection theory, Stroop effect, touchscreen, welfare, zoo

2021

Environmental enrichment effects on the reproductive behavior of captive nurse sharks Ginglymostoma cirratum

Authors: Helen Colbachini, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto, Leonardo Mendes de Souza Mesquita, Otto Bismarck Fazzano Gadig

Publication/Journal: Environmental Biology of Fishes

Keywords: captive breeding, olfactory enrichment, olfactory mediation, shark reproduction

2021

Environmental enrichment impacts discrimination between familiar and unfamiliar human odours in snakes (Pantherophis guttata)

Authors: Gokulan Nagabaskaran, Oliver HP Burman, Tatjana Hoehfurtner, Anna Wilkinson

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: enrichment, environment, familiarity, odour discrimination, reptile, snake

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

Investigation of Environmentally Dependent Movement of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Authors: Zining Zhang, Ding Zhang, Joaquin Gabaldon, Kari Goodbar, Nicole West, Kira Barton, Kenneth Alex Shorter

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: computer vision, enrichment, environmental stimuli, object detection, swimming kinematics

2021

Localize Animal Sound Events Reliably (LASER): A New Software for Sound Localization in Zoos

Authors: Sebastian Schneider, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: acoustic multilateration, animal detection, animal sounds, animal welfare, behavioral research, bioacoustics, non-invasive, sound localization, TDOA, vocalization

2021

Animal rights and captivity in a non-ideal world

Authors: Robert Garner

Publication/Journal: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals

Keywords: animal rights, animal welfare, captivity, cognitive capacities, confinement

2020

The effectiveness of conditioned aversion in wolves: Insights from experimental tests

Authors: Jorge Tobajas, María Josefa Ruiz-Aguilera, José Vicente López-Bao, Pablo Ferreras, Rafael Mateo

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: conditioned taste aversion, human–wildlife conflict, large carnivore conservation, livestock predation, non-lethal predation control, wildlife management

2020

Effects of habitat modifications on behavioral indicators of welfare for Madagascar giant hognose snakes (Leioheterodon madagascariensis)

Authors: MS Spain, G Fuller, SM Allard

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: behavioral diversity, environmental enrichment, environmental exploration, habitat design, reptile welfare

2020

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