Welfare and Clinical Assessment on Physical Captures Followed by Anesthesia in Apennine Chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata)

Authors: Simone Angelucci, Antonio Antonucci, Fabrizia Di Tana, Marco Innocenti, Giovanna Di Domenico, Luca Madonna, Camilla Smoglica, Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco, Jorge Ramón López-Olvera

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: acepromazine, blood gas analysis, capture, chemical immobilization, conservation, medetomidine-ketamine, physical capture, Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata, stress

2023

A debilitating digestive condition in captive red panda Ailurus fulgens with animal welfare implications for the global population

Authors: Rebecca L Thomasson, Simone D Vitali

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: ailurus fulgens, GSMP, red panda, species management, zoos

2022

The effects of claw ligatures in American lobster (Homarus americanus) storage: a preliminary study of haemolymph parameters

Authors: Chiara Coppola, Erica Tirloni, Mauro Vasconi, Aniello Anastasio, Simone Stella, Cristian Bernardi

Publication/Journal: Acta Veterinaria Brno

Keywords: claws binding, crustacea, invertebrates, stress response

2019

Feeding Enrichment in a Captive Pack of European Wolves (Canis Lupus Lupus): Assessing the Effects on Welfare and on a Zoo’s Recreational, Educational and Conservational Role

Authors: Giacomo Riggio, Chiara Mariti, Chiara Boncompagni, Simone Corosaniti, Massimiliano Di Giovanni, Asahi Ogi, Angelo Gazzano, Robert Thomas

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, conservation, education, visitor, wolf behaviour, zoo

2019

Risk-averse personalities have a systemically potentiated neuroendocrine stress axis: A multilevel experiment in Parus major

Authors: Alexander T. Baugh, Rebecca A. Senft, Marian Firke, Abigail Lauder, Julia Schroeder, Simone L. Meddle, Kees van Oers, Michaela Hau

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: acth, behavioral syndromes, corticosterone, dexamethasone, glucocorticoid receptor, hpa axis, mineralocorticoid receptor, negative feedback, personality, stress

2017

King Penguins in Zoos: Relating Breeding Success to Husbandry Practices

Authors: Simone Schweizer, Peter Stoll, Friederike von Houwald, Bruno Baur

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: breeding, king penguins, zoos

2016

The stress response is attenuated during inclement weather in parental, but not in pre-parental, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) breeding in the Low Arctic

Authors: Jesse S. Krause, Jonathan H. Pérez, Helen E. Chmura, Simone L. Meddle, Kathleen E. Hunt, Laura Gough, Natalie Boelman, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, hpa axis, life history trade-offs, parental care, snowstorms, stress

2016

Growth and development of captive Geocrinia rosea (Myobatrachidae): A rare species analogue

Authors: Lisa Mantellato, Glen Gaikhorst, Renee Kruger, Simone Vitali, Helen Robertson

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive management, development, geocrinia, growth, myobatrachidae

2013

Mounting behaviour in finishing pigs: Stable individual differences are not due to dominance or stage of sexual development

Authors: Sara Hintze, Desiree Scott, Simon Turner, Simone L. Meddle, Richard B. D’Eath

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dominance, mounting behaviour, puberty, sexual behaviour, welfare

2013

Social licking in dairy cattle—Effects on heart rate in performers and receivers

Authors: Simone Laister, Barbara Stockinger, Anna-Maria Regner, Karin Zenger, Ute Knierim, Christoph Winckler

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: affective states, affiliative social behavior, affiliative social behaviour, allogrooming, cardiac activity, dairy cows

2011

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