Equid Assessment, Research and Scoping (EARS): The Development and Implementation of a New Equid Welfare Assessment and Monitoring Tool

Authors: Zoe Raw, Joao B. Rodrigues, Karen Rickards, Joe Ryding, Stuart L. Norris, Andrew Judge, Laura M. Kubasiewicz, Tamlin L. Watson, Holly Little, Ben Hart, Rebekah Sulivan, Chris Garrett, Faith A. Burden

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal-based indicators, equid, equid welfare, evidence-based practice, one health, welfare assessment

2020

Integrated Collection Assessment and Planning (ICAP) workshop: Helping zoos move toward the One Plan Approach

Authors: Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Kristin Leus, Karen Bauman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ex situ conservation, integrated conservation, regional collection planning

2019

Reproductive Viability Analysis (RVA) as a new tool for ex situ population management

Authors: Karen Bauman, John Sahrmann, Ashley Franklin, Cheryl Asa, Mary Agnew, Kathy Traylor-Holzer, David Powell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ex situ, reproductive success, sustainability

2019

The effect providing space in excess of standards on the behaviour of budgerigars in aviaries

Authors: Clive J. C. Phillips, Cameron Farrugia, Chun-han Lin, Karen Mancera, Bob Doneley

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, aviary, behaviour, budgerigar, flight

2018

“Feelings and Fitness” Not “Feelings or Fitness”–The Raison d’être of Conservation Welfare, Which Aligns Conservation and Animal Welfare Objectives

Authors: Ngaio J. Beausoleil, David J. Mellor, Liv Baker, Sandra E. Baker, Mariagrazia Bellio, Alison S. Clarke, Arnja Dale, Steve Garlick, Bidda Jones, Andrea Harvey, Benjamin J. Pitcher, Sally Sherwen, Karen A. Stockin, Sarah Zito

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare assessment, conservation welfare, environmental ethics, wild animal welfare, wildlife conservation.

2018

The effects of mining machinery noise of different frequencies on the behaviour, faecal corticosterone and tissue morphology of wild mice (Mus musculus)

Authors: Karen F. Mancera, Allan Lisle, Rachel Allavena, Clive J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, circling, high frequency, low frequency, mining, stress

2017

Impact of mimicking natural dispersion on breeding success of captive North American Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)

Authors: Sierra J. Gillman, Karen Ziegler-Meeks, Carol Eager, Thomas A. Tenhundfeld, Wendy Shaffstall, Mary Jo Stearns, Adrienne E. Crosier

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aza, breeding, carnivore, cheetah, ssp

2017

Spontaneous discrimination of urine odours in wild African lions, Panthera leo

Authors: Geoffrey D. Gilfillan, Jessica D. T. Vitale, J. Weldon McNutt, Karen McComb

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: felids, group discrimination, mammals, olfactory communication, scent marking, scent presentation, sex discrimination

2017

Stress coping style does not determine social status, but influences the consequences of social subordination stress

Authors: Gretha J. Boersma, Michael D. Smeltzer, Karen A. Scott, Anton J. Scheurink, Kellie L. Tamashiro, Randall R. Sakai

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: social stress, stress coping style, visual burrow system

2017

Behavioural, brain and cardiac responses to hypobaric hypoxia in broiler chickens

Authors: Jessica E. Martin, Karen Christensen, Yvonne Vizzier-Thaxton, Malcolm A. Mitchell, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, hypobaric hypoxia, low atmosphere pressure stunning

2016

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