Ackonc-AWA: A multi-species animal welfare assessment protocol for wild animals under human care to overcome the use of generic welfare checklists
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords:
2022
Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal welfare, Cetartiodactyla, conservation, food-based enrichment
2022
Preliminary Findings on How Different Management Systems and Social Interactions Influence Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites in White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: glucocorticoids, management, reproduction, stress, white rhinoceros
2022
What do we know about flamingo behaviors? A systematic review of the ethological research on the Phoenicopteridae (1978–2020)
Conservation, animal behaviour, and human-animal relationship in zoos. Why is animal welfare so important?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Animal Behaviour abd Biometeorology
Keywords: animal welfare, ex situ conservation, wildlife conservation., zoos
2020
Corticosterone Assimilation by a Voluntary Oral Administration in Palatable Food to Rats
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: administration, bread, drug, noninvasive, refinement
2019
Diel and infradian (7-day) activity rhythms in Mexican spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) kept with and without visitor contact
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: activity pattern, circadian rhythm, circaseptan rhythm, masking effect, zoo visitor effect
2018
Sexual differentiation and growth of clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) using commercial and experimental diets
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: biometric parameters, duration of sexual differentiation, mature couples
2018
Designing Better Water Troughs: Does Trough Color Influence Dairy Cows’ Preference?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: color, cow, drinker, preference, water
2017
Circadian rhythm of salivary cortisol secretion in female zoo-kept African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: adrenal activity, glucocorticoids, non-invasive monitoring, saliva, welfare
2016