The Link Between Personality, Subjective Well-being, and Welfare in Zoo-Housed Sulawesi Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

Authors: Nia Parry-Howells, Kathy Baker, Holly L. Farmer

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords: behaviour, dominance, macaca nigra, personality, subjective well-being, Sulawesi crested macaques, welfare

2023

The Link Between Personality, Subjective Well-being, and Welfare in Zoo-Housed Sulawesi Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

Authors: Nia Parry-Howells, Kathy Baker, Holly L. Farmer

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

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2023

Interspecies Interactions Mediated by Technology: An Avian Case Study at the Zoo

Authors: Rébecca Kleinberger, Anne HK Harrington, Lydia Yu, Akito van Troyer, David Su, Janet M Baker, Gabriel Miller

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Keywords: animal agency, animal music, animal-computer-interaction, enrichment, interspecies interactions, sonic enrichment

2020

Consequences Matter: Compassion in Conservation Means Caring for Individuals, Populations and Species

Authors: Paul J. Johnson, Vanessa M. Adams, Doug P. Armstrong, Sandra E. Baker, Duan Biggs, Luigi Boitani, Alayne Cotterill, Emma Dale, Holly O'Donnell, David J. T. Douglas, Egil Droge, John G. Ewen, Ruth E. Feber, Piero Genovesi, Clive Hambler, Bart J. Harmsen, Lauren A. Harrington, Amy Hinks, Joelene Hughes, Lydia Katsis, Andrew Loveridge, Axel Moehrenschlager, Christopher O'Kane, Meshach Pierre, Steve Redpath, Lovemore Sibanda, Pritpal Soorae, Mark Stanley Price, Peter Tyrrell, Alexandra Zimmermann, Amy Dickman

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: compassion, consequentialism, ethics, virtue

2019

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

Relationships between housing and management factors and clinical health events in elephants in North American zoos

Authors: Katie L. Edwards, Michele A. Miller, Kathy Carlstead, Janine L. Brown

Publication/Journal: PLoS ONE

Keywords: clinical events, elephant, welfare, welfare indicator

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 effects of olfactory stimulation on the behavior of captive ring‐tailed lemurs (Lemur catta)

Authors: Brittanny Baker, Sienna Taylor, V. Tamara Montrose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: environmental enrichment, lemur behavior, odors, zoo welfare

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

Higher levels of submissive behaviors at the onset of the pairing process of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are associated with lower risk of wounding following introduction

Authors: Ori Pomerantz, Kate C. Baker

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: social introductions, social wounding, submissive behaviors

2017

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