Personality in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Temporal stability and methods of assessment

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay Murray, Lisa Holmes, Ellen Williams

Publication/Journal: Personality and Individual Differences

Keywords: elephant, personality, scale, TIPI, welfare

2025

Internal and external factors affect pair mate proximity in captive coyotes, Canis latrans

Authors: Alexandra Turano, Stacey P. Brummer, Jeffrey T. Schultz, Julie K. Young, Sara M. Freeman

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: coyote, hormone, pair-bonding, progesterone, proximity, synchrony

2024

Paternal behavior in captive fat-tailed dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleus medius) is preserved under socially relevant conditions

Authors: Marina B. Blanco, Rachel Bernstein, Laura M. Durlacher, Lisa Hathaway, Mandy Matson, James Sigafoos, Lynn Wells, Lydia K. Greene

Publication/Journal: Primates

Keywords: duke lemur center, hibernation, Pair-living Primate

2024

Activity budgets, responses to disturbance and novel behaviours in captive mountain chicken frogs Leptodactylus fallax

Authors: Eve Mannings, Francesca Servini, Benjamin Tapley, Christopher J Michaels

Publication/Journal: Herpetological Journal

Keywords: amphibians, behaviour, disturbance, mSPI, welfare, zoo

2023

Effects of food-based enrichment on enclosure use and behavioral patterns in captive mammalian predators: a case study from an Austrian wildlife park

Authors: Verena Puehringer-Sturmayr, Monika Fiby, Stephanie Bachmann, Stefanie Filz, Isabella Grassmann, Theresa Hoi, Claudia Janiczek, Didone Frigerio

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, animal visibility, animal welfare, brown bear, Domestic ferret, Pine marten

2023

Identifying potential measures of stress and disturbance during a captive to wild African elephant reintegration

Authors: Yolanda Pretorius, Tamara Eggeling, Andre Ganswindt

Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, elephants, secretion

2023

The influence of feeding routines on the behavior of zoo-housed Sulawesi crested black macaques (Macaca nigra)

Authors: C. P. Howell, Connor Warnes, P. A. Bayliss

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavioral-response, feeding, Sulawesi crested black macaques, welfare

2023

Non-invasive measurements of respiration and heart rate across wildlife species using Eulerian Video Magnification of infrared thermal imagery

Authors: Caroline L Rzucidlo, Erin Curry, Michelle R Shero

Publication/Journal: BMC Biology

Keywords: infrered thermal imagery, non-invasive measurements

2023

Quantifying animals’ perception of environmental predictability using anticipatory behavior

Authors: A. A. Podturkin, B. L. Krebs, J. V. Watters

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biol

Keywords: appetitive behavior, pinniped, predictability, reliable cue, sea lion

2023