Supporting Geriatric Zoo Animal Welfare Through Nutrition
Publication/Journal: Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care
2023
Does Handling for Public Talks in Zoos Affect the Behaviour of Captive Mexican Red-Kneed Spiders Brachypelma hamorii?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: activity, enclosure use, handling, invertebrate, spiders, welfare
2022
The Effect of Substrate on Water Quality in Ornamental Fish Tanks
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: environmental enrichment, gravel substrate, home aquaria, ornamental fishes, sand substrate, substrate enrichment
2022
Insights into Activity of Zoo Housed Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) during Periods of Limited Staff and Visitor Presence, a Focus on Resting Behaviour
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, evidence-based management, resting, sleep, social behavior
2021
Longitudinal Improvements in Zoo-Housed Elephant Welfare: A Case Study at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, behaviour, elephas maximus, resting, social, SSSMZP
2020
Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: animal welfare, Echinoderm, invertebrate, reintroduction, relocation, stress
2019
Dietary management of a Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) troop to improve body and coat condition and reduce parasite burden
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: diet, dominance, fibre, primate, soluble carbohydrates, trichuris
2018
Feeding Asian pangolins: An assessment of current diets fed in institutions worldwide
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: ants, chitin, insectivore, myrmecophagy, nutritional geometry
2017
Natural variation in maternal care and cross-tissue patterns of oxytocin receptor gene methylation in rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anxiety behavior, concordance, cross-tissue, DNA methylation, epigenetic, maternal care, natural variation, oxtr, oxytocin, oxytocin receptor
2016
Diets high in fruits and low in gum exudates promote the occurrence and development of dental disease in pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: exudativore, gummivore, nutrition, primate
2015