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

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

C-Well: The development of a welfare assessment index for captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Authors: I. L. K. Clegg, J. L. Borger-Turner, H. C. Eskelinen

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, animal-based measures, assessment, bottlenose dolphins, c-well®, dolphin welfare, welfare assessment

2015

Different problem-solving strategies in dogs diagnosed with anxiety-related disorders and control dogs in an unsolvable task paradigm

Authors: Chiara Passalacqua, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Isabella Merola, Clara Palestrini, Emanuela Prato Previde

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dogs, gazing behaviour, pathological anxiety, problem solving

2013

Owners’ perceptions of quality of life in geriatric horses: a cross-sectional study

Authors: J. L. Ireland, P. D. Clegg, C. M. McGowan, J. S. Duncan, S. McCall, L. Platt, G. L. Pinchbeck

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, euthanasia, geriatric, horse, quality of life, survey

2011

Individualities in a flock of free-roaming greylag geese: Behavioral and physiological consistency over time and across situations

Authors: Simona Kralj-Fiser, Isabella B. R. Scheiber, Andrej Blejec, Erich Moestl, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: affiliative behaviors, aggressiveness, corticosterone, handling, heritability, individuality, personality, repeatability, testosterone

2007