Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective

Authors: Lauren Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology

2024

A Comparative Multi-Zoo Survey Investigating the Housing and Husbandry of Callimico goeldii

Authors: Amanda Bartlett, James Edward Brereton, Marianne Sarah Freeman

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: callitrichid, captive management, enclosure complexity, goeldi's monkey, welfare

2024

Food preferences and nutrient composition in captive Southern brown howler monkeys, Alouatta guariba clamitans

Authors: P. Silveira, W. Valler Í, Z. M. B. Hirano, A. N. Dada, M. Laska, L. T. H. Salazar

Publication/Journal: Primates

Keywords: alouatta, alouatta guariba clamitans, animals, correlational analysis, female, food preference, haplorhini, humans, male, nutrient composition, nutrients, Southern brown howler monkey

2024

Prosocial or photo preferences? Gorillas’ prosocial choices using a touchscreen

Authors: Jennifer Vonk

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: gorilla gorilla gorilla, photo preference, prosocial choices, western lowland gorillas

2024

Specifically unspecific–Simple devices as feasible and effective enrichment for small mammals

Authors: M Göbel, S Kaiser, H Richter, P Wagner, G Wehrenberg

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal husbandry, animal welfare, behavioral enrichment, Multi-species approach, stereotypy, zoo

2024

What Types of Animals Should Be in the Future Zoo? Thoughts from United States Residents and Zoo and Aquarium Staff

Authors: David M Powell, Theodore G Meyer, Candice Dorsey, Rob Vernon

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: collection, conservation, domesticated, education, endangered, exhibit, mission, popular, preference, recreation

2024

Whole versus chopped food: the bintu-right way to do it?

Authors: Alexander J. Vine, Amy Hammond, Georgia Abernethy Palmer, James Edward Brereton

Publication/Journal: Discover Animals

Keywords: arctictis binturong, carnivora, chopped food, food particle size, wildlife park, zoo

2024

Contrafreeloading Indicating the Behavioural Need to Forage in Healthy and Feather Damaging Grey Parrots

Authors: Yvonne R. A. van Zeeland, Nico J. Schoemaker, Johannes T. Lumeij

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: enrichment, feather damaging behaviour, feather picking, feather plucking, foraging, psittacine, psittacus erithacus

2023

Environmental enrichment in ruminants and equines: Introduction

Authors: Raphaëlle Botreau, Clémence Lesimple, Valentin Brunet, Isabelle Veissier

Publication/Journal:

Keywords:

2023

Food-related substrate preference in juveniles seastar Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis (Müller & Troschel,1842) in captivity

Authors: Bruna L. Maganhe, Laura S. Andrade, Laura de O. Camilo, Hugo G. Neto, Eduardo G. Sanches

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aquaculture, bio media, captive breeding, marine aquarium, marine invertebrate

2023