Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play
2024
Exploring the behaviors and social preferences of a large, multigenerational herd of zoo-housed southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: ceratotherium, social behavior, welfare, zoo animal
2023
The Impact of Visitors on Non-Primate Species in Zoos: A Quantitative Review
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: non-primate species, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare, zoo visitors
2023
The Impacts of Evening Events in Zoos: A Christmas Event at Knowsley Safari
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal behaviour, Christmas lights, evidence-based management, ungulates, zoo animal welfare
2023
Communication from the Zoo: Reports from Zoological Facilities of the Impact of COVID-19 Closures on Animals
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: communication, COVID-19, keeper-animal interactions, social media, visitor–animal interactions, zoo closures
2022
Primate cognition in zoos: Reviewing the impact of zoo‐based research over 15 years
Recognising emotional expressions in captive bottlenose dolphins: Can lay observers agree using qualitative behavioural assessment?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal welfare assessment, aquarium, captive dolphins, dolphin behaviour, free choice profiling, qualitative behaviour assessment, tursiops-truncatus, zoo
2022
Zoo Closure Does Not Affect Behavior and Activity Patterns of Palawan Binturong (Arctictis binturong whitei)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: 24h monitoring, COVID-19, understudied, visitor effect, visitor–animal interactions, welfare
2022
CHALLENGES TO ANIMAL WELFARE DURING TRANSPORTATION OF WILD MAMMALS: A REVIEW (1990–2020)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
Keywords: animal welfare, transport
2021
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult
Publication/Journal: Cognition
Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference
2021