Assessing Giraffe Welfare During Seasonal Habitat Changes in Northern US Zoos
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, enclosure, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, giraffe, recumbency
2024
Captive Management and Reproduction of the Rio Pescado Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus balios)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: atelopus, captive management, conservation, temperature cycling
2024
Development and assessment of a stair ascension challenge as a measure of aging and physical function in nonhuman primates
Publication/Journal: Am J Primatol
Keywords: *Frailty, African green monkey, aging, animals, mobility, nonhuman primates, primates
2024
Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play
2024
Environmental Enrichment in Rabbit Husbandry: Comparative Impacts on Performance and Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: behavior, environmental stress, housing enrichment, productive performance, rabbit, sensors, welfare
2024
In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity
2024
Investigating the relationship between abiotic factors and the behaviour of an All-Male Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) Group
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: Abiotic influences, animal behaviour, animal welfare, Crocodilian behaviour, reptile welfare
2024
Measuring heart rate in captive chimpanzees without anesthesia
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: chimpanzees, heart rate measurements
2024
Nursing Behavior of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Calves from 1990-2014 at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, USA
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: bottlenose dolphin, neonate, nursing behavior, tursiops-truncatus
2024
Nutrition in captive penguins: What do we know about how can we make it better?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal nutrition, energy requirements, feeding guidelines, polar habitat, spheniscidae
2024