Assessing zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift

Authors: Lara Scherer, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Max Hahn-Klimroth, Dennis Müller, Marco Roller, Mads Bertelsen, Jörg Jebram, Paul Dierkes, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival

2024

A Preliminary Study Investigating the Impact of Musical Concerts on the Behavior of Captive Fiordland Penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) and Collared Peccaries (Pecari tajacu)

Authors: Lara Fanning, Hannah Larsen, Peta S Taylor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal management, music, noise, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare

2020

Individual differences in zoo-housed squirrel monkeys’ (Saimiri sciureus) reactions to visitors, research participation, and personality ratings

Authors: Zita Polgár, Lara Wood, Marie J. Haskell

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: animal welfare, personality, selection bias, squirrel monkeys, zoo visitors

2017

Differences in Fecal Androgen Patterns of Breeding and Nonbreeding Kori Bustards (Ardeotis kori)

Authors: Linda M. Penfold, Sara Hallager, Jeanette Boylan, Martine de Wit, Lara C. Metrione, Marcie Oliva

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: avian, breeding, fecal, hormone, seasonal, testosterone

2013

Enriched environment effects on behavior, memory and BDNF in low and high exploratory mice

Authors: Vanessa Kazlauckas, Natalia Pagnussat, Sabrina Mioranzza, Eduardo Kalinine, Fernanda Nunes, Leticia Pettenuzzo, Diogo O.Souza, Luis V. Portela, Lisiane O. Porciúncula, Diogo R. Lara

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: bdnf, environmental enrichment, high exploratory mice, inhibitory avoidance, low exploratory mice, novel object recognition, open field

2011

Learning magnifies individual variation in heterospecific mating propensity

Authors: Lara Kujtan, Reuven Dukas

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: assortative mating, drosophila persimilis, drosophila pseudoobscura, fruit fly, learning

2009

Paradoxical sleep deprivation activates hypothalamic nuclei that regulate food intake and stress response

Authors: Milene de Oliveira Lara Galvão, Rita Sinigaglia-Coimbra, Suzi Emiko Kawakami, Sergio Tufik, Deborah Suchecki

Publication/Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology

Keywords: food intake, hpa axis, hypothalamus, orexin, paradoxical sleep deprivation, stress

2009

Captive breeding and rearing of critically endangered Mauritius fodies Foudia rubra for reintroduction

Authors: Andrew Cristinacce, Amanda Ladkoo, Richard Switzer, Lara Jordan, Vanessa Vencatasamy, Frederique de Ravel Koenig, Carl Jones, Diana Bell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive breeding, foudia, hand rearing, harvesting, reintroduction

2008

Social and spatial relationships in captive southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum)

Authors: Lara C. Metrione, Linda M. Penfold, George H. Waring

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: companionship, dominance, reproduction, social behavior, vocalizations

2007