A comprehensive investigation of negative visitor behaviour in the zoo setting and captive animals’ behavioural response

Authors: Courtney Collins, Sean McKeown, Ruth O’Riordan

Publication/Journal: Heliyon

Keywords: animal behaviour, Circuit-study, Negative behaviour, visitors, zoo

2023

Estimates of locomotion in Asian elephants Elephas maximus using video monitoring at Dublin Zoo, Ireland

Authors: Alison Brady, Barry J McMahon, Favel Naulty

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: CCTV video, elephas maximus, locomotion, zoo

2021

The Effect of Behind-The-Scenes Encounters and Interactive Presentations on the Welfare of Captive Servals (Leptailurus serval)

Authors: Lydia K Acaralp-Rehnberg, Grahame J Coleman, Michael JL Magrath, Vicky Melfi, Kerry V Fanson, Ian M Bland

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: human-animal interaction, live animal encounter programs, small felids, visitor effects, zoo animal welfare

2020

Utilizing Camera Traps, Closed Circuit Cameras and Behavior Observation Software to Monitor Activity Budgets, Habitat Use, and Social Interactions of Zoo-Housed Asian Elephants (Elephus maximus)

Authors: Jilian M Fazio, Tony Barthel, Elizabeth W Freeman, Kay Garlick-Ott, Anne Scholle, Janine L Brown

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, camera traps, ex-situ management, ZooMonitor

2020

Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) sleep study – long-term quantitative research at Dublin Zoo

Authors: Brendan Walsh

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: asian elephant, husbandry, sleep, zoo

2017

The neurobiology of mammalian parenting and the biosocial context of human caregiving

Authors: Ruth Feldman

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: neurobiology of attachment, oxytocin, parental brain, parenting behavior

2016

Effects of feather pecking phenotype (severe feather peckers, victims and non-peckers) on serotonergic and dopaminergic activity in four brain areas of laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Authors: Marjolein S. Kops, Elske N. de Haas, T. Bas Rodenburg, Esther D. Ellen, Gerdien A. H. Korte-Bouws, Berend Olivier, O. Güntürkün, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, S. Mechiel Korte

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: feather pecking behavior, laying hens, monoamines, ocd, thalamopallial circuit

2013

Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) reveals brain circuitry involved in responding to an acute novel stress in rats with a history of repeated social stress

Authors: Debra A. Bangasser, Catherine S. Lee, Philip A. Cook, James C. Gee, Seema Bhatnagar, Rita J. Valentino

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: extended amygdala, individual differences, manganese enhanced mri, resident–intruder, stress

2013

The basic neuroscience of emotional experiences in mammals: The case of subcortical FEAR circuitry and implications for clinical anxiety

Authors: Jaak Panksepp, Thomas Fuchs, Paolo Iacobucci

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: amygdala, anxiety, benzodiazepines, fear, gaba, neuropeptides, periaqueductal gray

2011

Vertebrates that never sleep: Implications for sleep’s basic function

Authors: J. Lee Kavanau

Publication/Journal: Brain Research Bulletin

Keywords: continuous swimming, memory circuit refreshment, reef-dwelling fishes, schooling functions, scombrids, sharks, troglobionts, vision and sleep

1998