Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care

Authors: Katrin Baumgartner, Tim Hüttner, Isabella L. K. Clegg, Manuel Garcia Hartmann, Daniel Garcia-Párraga, Xavier Manteca, Birgitta Mercera, Tania Monreal-Pawlowsky, Cristina Pilenga, Kerstin Ternes, Oriol Tallo-Parra, Ruta Vaicekauskaite, Lorenzo von Fersen, Lisa Yon, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: cetacean welfare, marine mammals, welfare evaluation, welfare indicator, zoo animals

2024

Hibernating or not hibernating? Brown bears’ response to a mismatch between environmental natural cues and captive management, and its welfare implications

Authors: Paolo Dori, Isabella Anastasio, Elisabetta Macchi, Isabella Manenti, Maik Hones, Monica Carosi

Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE

Keywords: animal welfare, captive management, cues, environment, physiology

2024

The Impact of Food Enrichment on the Behavior of Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) Kept under Human Care

Authors: Isabella Brosens Barros, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Cynthia Fernandes Cipreste, Laura Chrispim Reisfeld, Thais Suzana, Rafael Gutierrez Capriolli, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranchs, environmental enrichment, fish welfare

2024

The voice of choice: A scoping review of choice-based animal welfare studies

Authors: Kelli Rust, Isabella Clegg, Eduardo J. Fernandez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, animal wellbeing, applied animal behaviour, captive environments, choice

2024

The Voice of Choice: A Scoping Review of Choice-Based Animal Welfare Studies

Authors: Kelli Rust, Isabella Clegg, Eduardo J. Fernandez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, animal wellbeing, applied animal behaviour, captive environments, choice

2024

Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins

Authors: Isabella LK Clegg, Mariana Domingues, Elin Ström, Linda Berggren

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare

2023

Effects of food-based enrichment on enclosure use and behavioral patterns in captive mammalian predators: a case study from an Austrian wildlife park

Authors: Verena Puehringer-Sturmayr, Monika Fiby, Stephanie Bachmann, Stefanie Filz, Isabella Grassmann, Theresa Hoi, Claudia Janiczek, Didone Frigerio

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, animal visibility, animal welfare, brown bear, Domestic ferret, Pine marten

2023

Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity

Authors: Morgane Tidière, Fernando Colchero, Johanna Staerk, Michael J. Adkesson, Ditte H. Andersen, Lucie Bland, Martin Böye, Sabrina Brando, Isabella Clegg, Sarah Cubaynes, Amy Cutting, Danny De Man, Andrew E. Derocher, Candice Dorsey, William Elgar, Eric Gaglione, Kirstin Anderson Hansen, Allison Jungheim, José Kok, Gail Laule, Agustín Lopez Goya, Lance Miller, Tania Monreal-Pawlowsky, Katelyn Mucha, Megan A. Owen, Stephen D. Petersen, Nicholas Pilfold, Douglas Richardson, Evan S. Richardson, Devon Sabo, Nobutaka Sato, Wynona Shellabarger, Cecilie R. Skovlund, Kanako Tomisawa, Sandra E. Trautwein, William Van Bonn, Cornelis Van Elk, Lorenzo Von Fersen, Magnus Wahlberg, Peijun Zhang, Xianfeng Zhang, Dalia A. Conde

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: adult mortality, first-year mortality, life expectancy, lifespan equality, population welfare

2023

Applying welfare science to bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Authors: I. L. K. Clegg, C. E. Van Elk, F. Delfour

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: affective states, animal welfare, animal-based measures, bottlenose dolphins, cetaceans, welfare assessment

2017

Bottlenose dolphins engaging in more social affiliative behaviour judge ambiguous cues more optimistically

Authors: I. L. K. Clegg, H. G. Rodel, F. Delfour

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affiliative behavior, animal emotion, animal welfare, anticipatory, behavior, behavioral sciences, bias, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive, judgment bias, mood, neurosciences, optimism, social behavior, state, stress, synchronous swimming, tursiops-truncatus, welfare

2017

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