Behavioral Assessment of Six Reptile Species during a Temporary Zoo Closure and Reopening
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: COVID-19, reptile welfare, visitor effects, zoo animal behavior
2022
A food for all seasons: Stability of food preferences in gorillas across testing methods and seasons
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: *food preferences, gorilla, paired-choice, stability, touchscreen, validation, zoo
2022
‘Bearly’ Changing with the Seasons: Bears of Five Species Show Few Behavioral Changes Across Seasons and at Varying Visitor Densities
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: bear behavior, COVID-19, crowd size, daily attendance, season, visitor effect
2021
DNA Damage as a Potential Non-Invasive Indicator of Welfare: A Preliminary Study in Zoo-Housed Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos horribilis)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine, 8-OHdG, animal welfare indicator, glucocorticoids, grizzly bear, oxidative stress
2021
Silence is Golden: Auditory Preferences in Zoo-housed Gorillas
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: choice, enrichment, gorilla, sound
2021
What’s not to like about Likert? Developing a nonverbal animal preference scale (NAPS)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: gorillas, Likert scale, preference scale
2021
Chimpanzee immigration: Complex social strategies differ between zoo-based and wild animals
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: demonic females, immigration, integration, inter-group, policing, social relationship
2020
Evaluation of the Impact of Behavioral Opportunities on Four Zoo-Housed Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, corticosterone, environmental enrichment, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, goal-based enrichment, nocturnal species
2020
In or out: Response slowing across housing conditions as a measure of affect in three Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: affect, gorilla, housing, response latency, response slowing, space
2020
Increasing browse and social complexity can improve zoo elephant welfare
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, diet, ex situ, loxodonta africana, management, social
2020