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

Handling and Training of Wild Animals: Evidence and Ethics-Based Approaches and Best Practices in the Modern Zoo

Authors: Sabrina Brando, Max Norman

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: 3rs, animal training, animal wellbeing, capacity building, human-animal relationship, learning, positive reinforcement, refinement, zoo animals

2023

Potential applications of personality assessments to the management of non-human primates: a review of 10 years of study

Authors: Max Norman, Lewis J Rowden, Guy Cowlishaw

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: management, non-human primates, personality assessment

2021

Sustainable species management of the elasmobranch populations within European aquariums: a conservation challenge

Authors: Max Janse, Brian Zimmerman, Lotte Geerlings, Chris Brown, Leo A.J. Nagelkerke

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: conservation, elasmobranch, sustainable population

2017

Determining nitrogen requirements of Aceros and Buceros hornbills

Authors: Sijmen G. Foeken, Max de Vries, Elisabeth Hudson, Christine D. Sheppard, Ellen S. Dierenfeld

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: avian nutrition, frugivores, hornbills, protein requirements

2008

Considerations on the diet composition and feeding rate of dermersal sharks in 15 European public aquaria

Authors: Max Janse

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: carcharhinus spp, carcharias taurus, dermersal sharks, diet, minerals, nutrition, vitamins

2003