The perception of felid welfare by zookeepers in North America and the implications for zoo managers
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare management, felids, five freedoms, zookeepers, zoos
2023
The influence of welfare and bonds with animals on the job satisfaction of felid keepers in North America
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, felids, job satisfaction, keepers
2022
Does Enclosure Size Influence the Behaviour & Welfare of Captive Snakes (Pantherophis guttatus)?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, enclosure size, preference, reptile behavior, reptile welfare
2021
Sustainable species management of the elasmobranch populations within European aquariums: a conservation challenge
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: conservation, elasmobranch, sustainable population
2017
Why pace? The influence of social, housing, management, life history, and demographic characteristics on locomotor stereotypy in zoo elephants
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, elephants, epidemiology, stereotypic behavior forms, zoo
2017
Analysis of the distal gut bacterial community by 454-pyrosequencing in captive giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: 16s rrna, giraffe, gut, microbiome, pyrosequencing
2016
Investigating temporary acyclicity in a captive group of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Relationship between management, adrenal activity and social factors
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, birth synchrony, central mechanisms, chemical communication, dominance status, endocrinology & metabolism, enzyme immunoassay, estrous synchrony, glucocorticoids, loxodonta-africana elephants, management, oestrous synchrony, ovarian activity, reproduction, reproductive cyclicity, temporary acyclicity, zoo elephants
2016
Qualitative Behaviour Assessment of dogs in the shelter and home environment and relationship with quantitative behaviour assessment and physiological responses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behavioural expression, canis familiaris, dog, saliva cortisol, shelter
2016
Comparison of SAFER Behavior Assessment Results in Shelter Dogs at Intake and After a 3-Day Acclimation Period
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: behavioral assessments, safer® assessment, shelter dogs
2015
Domesticated horses differ in their behavioural and physiological responses to isolated and group housing
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behaviour, corticosterone, equine, housing
2015