Structural enrichment promotes natural behaviour and welfare of captive gilthead seabream broodstock

Authors: Ana Rita Oliveira, María J. Cabrera-Álvarez, Florbela Soares, Carlos Diáz-Gil, Ana Candeias-Mendes, João L. Saraiva, Pablo Arechavala-Lopez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aquaculture, behavioural indicators, environmental enrichment, Physiological indicators, positive welfare, Spawners

2024

Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses

Authors: Carlos Magno de Faria, Fernanda de Souza Sá, Dhiordan Deon Lovestain Costa, Mariane Mendes da Silva, Beatriz Cristiana da Silva, Robert John Young, Cristiano Schetini Azevedo

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal welfare, Cetartiodactyla, conservation, food-based enrichment

2022

Environmental enrichment effects on the reproductive behavior of captive nurse sharks Ginglymostoma cirratum

Authors: Helen Colbachini, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto, Leonardo Mendes de Souza Mesquita, Otto Bismarck Fazzano Gadig

Publication/Journal: Environmental Biology of Fishes

Keywords: captive breeding, olfactory enrichment, olfactory mediation, shark reproduction

2021

Welfare Improvement by Enrichment Programs in Common Marmoset Females Under Social Isolation

Authors: Mariana de França Santos, Ana Cecília de Menezes Galvão, Flávia Santos Silva, Erick dos Santos Silva, Geovan de Sousa, Bruno Lobão-Soares, Renata Gonçalves Ferreira, Maria Bernardete de Sousa, Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: callithrix jacchus, cortisol, food enrichment, structural enrichment, welfare

2021

Personality traits modulate stress responses after enclosure change of captive capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)

Authors: Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira, Elanne De Paiva Fonseca, Ana Cecilia Correia Santos Das Chagas, Luiz Guilherme Mesquita Pinheiro, Maria Bernardete Cordeiro de Sousa, Hélderes Peregrino Alves Da Silva, Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho, Renata Gonçalves Ferreira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal personality, animal welfare, captivity, enclosure change, individual differences, primates

2020

Environmental Enrichment Effect on Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites and Captive Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) Behavior

Authors: Carlyle Mendes Coelho, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Marcelo Alcino de Barros Vaz Guimarães, Robert John Young

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, foraging enrichment, interspecific enrichment, intraspecific enrichment, zoo environment

2016

Physiological and behavioral responses to routine procedures in captive common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Authors: A. C. D. Galvao, R. G. Ferreira, M. B. C. de Sousa, N. L. Galvao-Coelho

Publication/Journal: Primates

Keywords: behavior, colony management, cortisol excretion, depression, fecal cortisol, model, monkeys, non-human primates, patterns, primates, separation, social stress, stress, stress response, zoology

2016

Nitrogen requirements of white-lipped peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

Authors: Sérgio L. G. Nogueira-Filho, Rogério M. Borges, Alcester Mendes, Carlos T. S. Dias

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal nutrition, balance trials, comparative physiology, endogenous urinary nitrogen, metabolic fecal nitrogen, wildlife feeding

2014

Feeding and Resting Postures of Wild Northern Muriquis (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)

Authors: Maria F. Iurck, Matthew G. Nowak, Leny C. M. Costa, SÉRgio L. Mendes, Susan M. Ford, Karen B. Strier

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: body size, posture, substrate use, tail-suspension, terminal canopy

2013

Behavioral responses of maned wolves (Chrysocyon brachyurus, Canidae) to different categories of environmental enrichment stimuli and their implications for successful reintroduction

Authors: Carlyle Mendes Coelho, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Robert John Young

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captivity, conservation, interspecific stimuli, intraspecific stimuli, zoo

2012

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