Cognitive bias tasks: a new set of approaches to assess welfare in nonhuman primates
Publication/Journal: Nonhuman primate welfare: from history, science, and ethics to practice
Keywords:
2023
Exploring the behaviors and social preferences of a large, multigenerational herd of zoo-housed southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: ceratotherium, social behavior, welfare, zoo animal
2023
Quality-of-Life Assessments in Zoo Animals: Not Just for the Aged and Charismatic
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, assessment, decision-making, euthanasia, geriatric, quality of life, zoo animal
2023
Interest in coloured objects and behavioural budgets of individual captive freshwater turtles
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: enrichment, escape behaviour, novelty stress
2021
Hematology and Plasma Biochemistry Value Differences Between Acclimated and Recently Captive Female Southern Stingrays, Dasyatis americana
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: captive, environmental change, hematology, plasma chemistry, stingrays, wild
2020
Increasing browse and social complexity can improve zoo elephant welfare
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, diet, ex situ, loxodonta africana, management, social
2020
An investigation into keeper opinions of great ape diets and abnormal behaviour
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: *tool use, abnormal behaviour, animal welfare, chimpanzees, cultivated fruit-free, diet, environmental enrichment, food presentation, foods, gorillas, great ape, keeper opinion, questionnaire, regurgitation, reingestion, wild
2019
An Animal Welfare Risk Assessment Process for Zoos
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: assessment, Five Domains, welfare, zoo
2018
Evaluating mood changes in response to anthropogenic noise with a response-slowing task in three species of zoo-housed primates
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: affect, gorilla gorilla, macaca fuscata, mood, noise, pan troglodytes, response slowing, zoo
2018
A Framework to Assess the Impact of New Animal Management Technologies on Welfare: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, cattle, cognition, cognitive activation theory of stress, livestock, sheep, virtual fencing
2018