The ethical assessment of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in wildlife conservation

Authors: Barbara de Mori, Elena Mercugliano, Pierfrancesco Biasetti, Ilaria Pollastri, Maria Michela Spiriti, Daniela Florio, Francesco Andreucci, Frank Göritz, Susanne Holtze, Cesare Galli, Jan Stejskal, Silvia Colleoni, Giovanna Lazzari, Steven Seet, Jan Zwilling, David Ndeereh, Isaac Lekolool, Stephen Ngulu, Dominic Mijele, Daniel Čižmár, Raffaella Simone, Lisa Schrade, Simone Basile, Thomas B. Hildebrandt

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: animal welfare, assisted reproductive technologies (art), biodiversity conservation, conservation ethics, Ethical assessment, research ethics

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

Authors: Morgan J. Edwards, Charlotte A. Hosie, Laura Naidenov, Eluned Price, Tessa E. Smith, Dominic Wormell, Christina R. Stanley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity

2024

Principal Component Analysis as a Novel Method for the Assessment of the Enclosure Use Patterns of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Edwards, Charlotte A Hosie, Tessa E Smith, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: critically endangered, enclosure design, fruit bats, principal component analysis, Spread of participation index, zoo management

2021

Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Welch, Tessa Smith, Charlotte Hosie, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, binomial mixture modelling, captive welfare, dominance, evidence based, Livingstone's fruit bat, network assortment, social network analysis, social roles

2020

Environmental and physiological determinants of huddling behavior of molting female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)

Authors: Laureline L. Chaise, Dominic J. McCafferty, Adélie Krellenstein, Susan L. Gallon, William D. Paterson, Marc Théry, André Ancel, Caroline Gilbert

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: aggregation behavior, habitat type, heat loss, meteorological variations, phocids, stomach temperature

2019

Non-invasive quantification of immunoglobulin A in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Authors: Emma L. Lantz, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Matthew R. Heintz, Carson M. Murray, Iddi Lipende, Dominic A. Travis, Rachel M. Santymire

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: field methods, great apes, health, immune system, stress

2018

The impact of exhibit type on behaviour of caged and free-ranging tamarins

Authors: Kayley Bryan, Samantha Bremner-Harrison, Eluned Price, Dominic Wormell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: captivity, emperor tamarin, free-ranging, natural behaviour, naturalistic exhibit, pied tamarin

2017

Why do captive pied tamarins give birth during the day?

Authors: Eluned C. Price, Catherine Payne, Dominic Wormell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: callitrichidae, circadian pattern, delivery behavior, parturition, saguinus bicolor

2016

Anhedonia in pigs? Effects of social stress and restraint stress on sucrose preference

Authors: Jaime Figueroa, David Solà-Oriol, Xavier Manteca, José Francisco Pérez, Dominic Michael Dwyer

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anhedonia, pigs, stress, sucrose

2015

Skin temperature reveals the intensity of acute stress

Authors: Katherine A. Herborn, James L. Graves, Paul Jerem, Neil P. Evans, Ruedi Nager, Dominic J. McCafferty, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, corticosterone, stress-induced hyperthermia, thermal imaging

2015

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