The perception of felid welfare by zookeepers in North America and the implications for zoo managers

Authors: Brian Ogle, Annabel DeSmet

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

Authors: Annabel DeSmet, Brian Ogle

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, felids, job satisfaction, keepers

2022

Development and Implementation of Baseline Welfare Assessment Protocol for Captive Breeding of Wild Ungulate-Punjab Urial (Ovis vignei punjabiensis, Lydekker 1913)

Authors: Romaan Hayat Khattak, Zhensheng Liu, Liwei Teng

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behavior, body condition, Pakistan, protocol, Punjab urial, veterinary assessment, welfare

2019

Sustainable species management of the elasmobranch populations within European aquariums: a conservation challenge

Authors: Max Janse, Brian Zimmerman, Lotte Geerlings, Chris Brown, Leo A.J. Nagelkerke

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

Authors: Brian J. Greco, Cheryl L. Meehan, Jennifer L. Heinsius, Joy A. Mench

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)

Authors: Ousama AlZahal, Eduardo V. Valdes, Brian W. McBride

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: 16s rrna, giraffe, gut, microbiome, pyrosequencing

2016

Feed-restricted broiler breeders: State-dependent learning as a novel welfare assessment tool to evaluate their hunger state?

Authors: Louise Anne Buckley, Victoria Sandilands, Paul Morison Hocking, Bert Jan Tolkamp, Rick Brian D’Eath

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)

Authors: Alexandra G. Rosati, Esther Herrmann, Juliane Kaminski, Christopher Krupenye, Alicia P. Melis, Kara Schroepfer, Jingzhi Tan, Felix Warneken, Victoria Wobber, Brian Hare

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: affective disorders, animal captivity, animal welfare, anxiety disorders, behavior analysis, chimpanzees, primates (nonhuman), psychopathology, well-being

2013

Different ontogenetic patterns of testosterone production reflect divergent male reproductive strategies in chimpanzees and bonobos

Authors: Victoria Wobber, Brian Hare, Susan Lipson, Richard Wrangham, Peter Ellison

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: bonobo, chimpanzee, life history, radioimmunoassay, reproduction, saliva, testosterone

2013

The exaggerated begging behaviour of an obligate avian brood parasite is shared with a nonparasitic close relative

Authors: James W. Rivers, Melissa A. Blundell, Thomas M. Loughin, Brian D. Peer, Stephen I. Rothstein

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: agelaius phoeniceus, begging, brood parasitism, brown-headed cowbird, molothrus ater, offspring signalling, red-winged blackbird

2013