Advancing zoo animal welfare through data science: scaling up continuous improvement efforts
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, artificial intelligence, continuous improvement, data science, evidence-based decision making, machine learning, zoo
2024
Contrafreeloading Indicating the Behavioural Need to Forage in Healthy and Feather Damaging Grey Parrots
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: enrichment, feather damaging behaviour, feather picking, feather plucking, foraging, psittacine, psittacus erithacus
2023
UVB-emitting LEDs for reptile lighting: Identifying the risks of nonsolar UV spectra
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: hypervitaminosis D, photo-kerato-conjunctivitis, previtamin D3, vitamin d3
2023
Influence of vitamin E and carcass feeding supplementation on fecal glucocorticoid and androgen metabolites in male black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes)
Publication/Journal: PloS one
Keywords: androgen, black-footed ferret, carcass feeding, fecal glucocorticoid, vitamin e
2020
Spatial Design of Guest Feeding Programs and Their Effects on Giraffe Participation and Social Interactions
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal social structure, animal welfare, giraffes, habitat design, human-animal interactions
2020
Stereotypic behaviour predicts reproductive performance and litter sex ratio in giant pandas
Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports
Keywords: captivity, giant pandas, reproductive-performance, stereotypies
2020
Is there any more room on the Ark? An analysis of space allocation in four mammalian taxa
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: collection planning, mission goals, population viability, species selection
2019
The physiological significance of the circadian dynamics of the HPA axis: Interplay between circadian rhythms, allostasis and stress resilience
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: allostasis, chronopharmacology, circadian rhythms, glucocorticoids, hpa axis, mathematical modeling, stress resilience
2019
Crocodilian perivitelline membrane-bound sperm detection
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: advanced reproductive technologies, crocodile, fertility, membrane-bound sperm
2017
Perspective: are animal scientists forgetting the scientific method and the essential role of statistics?
Publication/Journal: Animal Production Science
Keywords: agriculture, digestible energy, experimental design, measurement accuracy, multidisciplinary, pigs, treatment replications
2017