In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity
2024
Kibble diet is associated with higher faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-managed red wolves (Canis rufus)
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: animal welfare, diet, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, Red wolf, zoo management
2024
Providing baseline data for conservation–Heart rate monitoring in captive scimitar-horned oryx
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Physiology
Keywords: heart rate monitoring, oryx
2023
Principal Component Analysis as a Novel Method for the Assessment of the Enclosure Use Patterns of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: critically endangered, enclosure design, fruit bats, principal component analysis, Spread of participation index, zoo management
2021
The Use of a Species-Specific Health and Welfare Assessment Tool for the Giant Pacific Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: disease, octopus, senescence, stress, welfare
2021
Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, binomial mixture modelling, captive welfare, dominance, evidence based, Livingstone's fruit bat, network assortment, social network analysis, social roles
2020
The Use of a Species-Specific Health and Welfare Assessment Tool for the Giant Pacific Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: disease, octopus, senescence, stress, welfare
2020
Using Zoo Welfare Assessments to Identify Common Issues in Developing Country Zoos
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal care, animal management, audit, welfare, welfare assessment, wildlife, zoo
2020
Perceptions of Social Responsibility of Prominent Animal Welfare Groups
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, best–worst scaling, perceptions, social responsibility
2018
Age and reproductive status influence dominance in wild female Phayre’s leaf monkeys
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: female–female competition, hierarchy, individualistic hierarchies, rank, resource-holding potential
2016