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
The Elephant Welfare Initiative: a model for advancing evidence‐based zoo animal welfare monitoring, assessment and enhancement
Publication/Journal: International Zoo Yearbook
Keywords: behaviour, body condition, evidence-based animal care, stereotypic behaviour, welfare benchmarking, welfare epidemiology, welfare monitoring, welfare software, zoo animal welfare
2019
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
The Days and Nights of Zoo Elephants: Using Epidemiology to Better Understand Stereotypic Behavior of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in North American Zoos
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: elephants, stereotypy, zoo
2016
Elephant Management in North American Zoos: Environmental Enrichment, Feeding, Exercise, and Training
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: diet, elephant husbandry, enrichment, training, zoos
2016
Feed-restricted broiler breeders: State-dependent learning as a novel welfare assessment tool to evaluate their hunger state?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, broiler breeder, choice test, feed restriction, preference test, state-dependent learning
2015
Assessing the psychological health of captive and wild apes: A response to Ferdowsian et al. (2011)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: affective disorders, animal captivity, animal welfare, anxiety disorders, behavior analysis, chimpanzees, primates (nonhuman), psychopathology, well-being
2013