Can an Enrichment Programme with Novel Manipulative and Scent Stimuli Change the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed European Wildcats? A Case Study

Authors: Valentina Bertoni, Barbara Regaiolli, Alessandro Cozzi, Stefano Vaglio, Caterina Spiezio

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: F3 semiochemical, scent enrichment programme, wildcats

2023

Wanted dead or alive: ethics and animal welfare in food choice

Authors: Alessandro Di Marzio, Elza Birbele, Rebeka Šķērstiņa

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: ethics, life feeding, policy, welfare

2023

Assessing the Preference of Rabbit Does to Social Contact or Seclusion: Results of Different Investigations

Authors: Alessandro Dal Bosco, Alice Cartoni Mancinelli, Steffen Hoy, Melania Martino, Simona Mattioli, Elisa Cotozzolo, Cesare Castellini

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: group housing, motivational cage, preference test, rabbit does, social contact

2020

Orangulas: effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

Authors: Juan Olvido Perea Garcia, Alessandro Miani, Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Jens Malmkvist, Cino Pertoldi, Trine Hammer Jensen, Rikke Kruse Nielsen, Dan Witzner Hansen, Lars A Bach

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: cortisol, ethogram, no rewards, orangutan, scheduled, visual enrichment

2020

Orangulas: effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus): effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan

Authors: Juan Olvido Perea Garcia, Alessandro Miani, Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Jens Malmkvist, Cino Pertoldi, Trine Hammer Jensen, Rikke Kruse Nielsen, Dan Witzner Hansen, Lars A Bach

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: cortisol, ethogram, no rewards, orangutan, scheduled, visual enrichment

2020

The provision of toys to pigs can improve the human-animal relationship

Authors: Míriam Marcet-Rius, Patrick Pageat, Cécile Bienboire-Frosini, Eva Teruel, Philippe Monneret, Julien Leclercq, Alessandro Cozzi

Publication/Journal: Porcine Health Management

Keywords: environmental enrichment, human-animal relationship, play behaviour, positive emotions, strange person test, tail movement

2020

Mutual grooming functions to prolong grooming received in ringtailed lemurs

Authors: Gabriele Schino, Alessandro Alessandrini

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: grooming, reciprocity

2018

Factors affecting cashew processing by wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus, Kerr 1792)

Authors: Elisabetta Visalberghi, Alessandro Albani, Marialba Ventricelli, Patricia Izar, Gabriele Schino, Dorothy Fragazsy

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: *tool use, age-related ability, anacardium spp, caustic compounds, social facilitation of eating

2016

Maternal exposure to environmental enrichment before and during gestation influences behaviour of rat offspring in a sex-specific manner

Authors: Anna Rita Zuena, Manuela Zinni, Chiara Giuli, Carlo Cinque, Giovanni Sebastiano Alemà, Alessandro Giuliani, Assia Catalani, Paola Casolini, Roberto Cozzolino

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, early programming, maternal behaviour, play behaviour, social hierarchy, spatial learning

2016

Stress revisited: A critical evaluation of the stress concept

Authors: J. M. Koolhaas, A. Bartolomucci, B. Buwalda, S. F. de Boer, G. Flügge, S. M. Korte, P. Meerlo, R. Murison, B. Olivier, P. Palanza, G. Richter-Levin, A. Sgoifo, T. Steimer, O. Stiedl, G. van Dijk, M. Wöhr, E. Fuchs

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: adaptation, adrenaline, allostasis, controllability, hpa axis, metabolism, noradrenaline, predictability, stress, stress response, sympathetic activity

2011

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