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
Can we eliminate the primate pet trade in the United States?
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: illegal pet trade, primates
2024
Enriched social environment affects the utterance of acoustic signals of captive François’ langurs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, social enrichment, vocal communication, vocal repertoire
2024
Health and environmental effects to wildlife from radio telemetry and tracking devices—state of the science and best management practices
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: data-loggers, fish, microchips, PIT tags, radio telemetry, radio-tracking, RFID chips, wildlife
2024
Investigation through Animal–Computer Interaction: A Proof-of-Concept Study for the Behavioural Experimentation of Colour Vision in Zoo-Housed Primates
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: ACI, animal experimentation, animal welfare, animal-computer-interaction, behavioural research, colour vision, sensory ecology, zoo
2024
Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal management, behavioural ecology, causation, conservation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny, zoo animal husbandry
2024
The ‘Visitor Effect’in Non-primate Zoo Species: What Do We Know and Where Should We Go Next?
Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice
Keywords: amphibians, animal welfare, birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals, multi taxa, positive welfare, reptiles, visitor effects
2024
Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below ground level or ground level exhibitor and influx of visitors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, visitor effects, white-tailed deer, zoo
2023
Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below-ground-level or ground-level exhibitor and influx of visitors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: Crowd noise, Exhibitor environment, habituation, ungulates, Visitors’ influx
2023
Can an Enrichment Programme with Novel Manipulative and Scent Stimuli Change the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed European Wildcats? A Case Study
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: F3 semiochemical, scent enrichment programme, wildcats
2023