Welfare and Enrichment of Managed Nocturnal Species, Supported by Technology

Authors: Fiona French, Paige Bwye, Laura Carrigan, Jon Charles Coe, Robert Kelly, Tiff Leek, Emily C. Lynch, Eric Mahan, Cathy Mingee

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal-computer-interaction, armadillo, aye-aye, bushbaby, collaborative design, coral, environmental enrichment, nocturnal, potto, vampire bat

2024

Principal Component Analysis as a Novel Method for the Assessment of the Enclosure Use Patterns of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Edwards, Charlotte A Hosie, Tessa E Smith, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: critically endangered, enclosure design, fruit bats, principal component analysis, Spread of participation index, zoo management

2021

Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Welch, Tessa Smith, Charlotte Hosie, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, binomial mixture modelling, captive welfare, dominance, evidence based, Livingstone's fruit bat, network assortment, social network analysis, social roles

2020

Oxytocin and the warm outer glow: Thermoregulatory deficits cause huddling abnormalities in oxytocin-deficient mouse pups

Authors: Christopher Harshaw, Joseph K. Leffel, Jeffrey R. Alberts

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: behavioral phenotyping, brown adipose tissue, huddling, mice, oxytocin

2018

Postnatal growth and age estimation in Scotophilus kuhlii

Authors: Shiang-Fan Chen, Shang-Shang Huang, Dau-Jye Lu, Tsung-Jen Shen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chiroptera, growth curves, hand rearing, lesser asiatic yellow house bat, vespertilionidae

2016

Dynamic behavioral strategies during sonar signal emission in roundleaf bats

Authors: Lin Feng, Yitan Li, Hongwang Lu

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: bat, biosonar, noseleaf, signal emission

2013

Mother–offspring recognition in the bat Carollia perspicillata

Authors: Mirjam Knörnschild, Marion Feifel, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: carollia perspicillata, male courtship, maternal care, maternal experience, playback experiment, seba's short-tailed fruit bat

2013

Further evidence for the post-release survival of hand-reared, orphaned bats based on radio-tracking and ring-return data

Authors: A. Kelly, S. Goodwin, A. Grogan, F. Mathews

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, pipistrelle bat, pipistrellus spp, post-release survival, radio-tracking, wildlife rehabilitation

2012

Learned vocal group signatures in the polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata

Authors: Mirjam Knörnschild, Martina Nagy, Markus Metz, Frieder Mayer, Otto von Helversen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: call convergence, greater sac-winged bat, horizontal learning, peer influence, saccopteryx bilineata, vocal learning

2012