Assessing the potential impact of zoo visitors on the welfare and cognitive performance of Japanese macaques
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: *cognitive bias, attention bias, monkey, touchscreen, visitor effect, zoo research
2021
Bold Frogs or Shy Toads? How Did the COVID-19 Closure of Zoological Organisations Affect Amphibian Activity?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: amphibian behaviour, amphibian welfare, COVID-19, enclosure usage, evidence-based husbandry, visitor effect
2021
Effects of Crowd Size, Composition, and Noise Level On Pool Use in a Mixed-Species Penguin Colony
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: behavior, decibel, visitor effects, welfare, zoo
2021
Effects of Nearby Construction Work on the Behavior of Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: behavior, construction, individual differences, lion, sound, welfare
2021
Impacts of environmental and human disturbances on behaviour of captive kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
Publication/Journal: New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Keywords: apteryx mantelli, disturbance of captive animals, noise, pacing, visitor management
2021
Localize Animal Sound Events Reliably (LASER): A New Software for Sound Localization in Zoos
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
Silence is Golden: Auditory Preferences in Zoo-housed Gorillas
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: choice, enrichment, gorilla, sound
2021
Studying Antillean manatees’(Trichechus manatus manatus) temperament in zoological parks: exploration of boldness, sociality and reactivity to humans
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: conservation, manatees, novelty tests, personality questionnaire, temperament, welfare
2021
A System for Monitoring Acoustics to Supplement an Animal Welfare Plan for Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: acoustic monitoring, animal welfare, bioacoustics, communication, distress call, marine mammal, vocal behavior, vocal biomarkers
2021
Visitor presence and a changing soundscape, alongside environmental parameters, can predict enclosure usage in captive flamingos
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: flamingos, sound, space usage, visitor effect, weather
2021