Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: cetacean welfare, marine mammals, welfare evaluation, welfare indicator, zoo animals
2024
Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare
2023
Effects of food-based enrichment on enclosure use and behavioral patterns in captive mammalian predators: a case study from an Austrian wildlife park
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: animal behavior, animal visibility, animal welfare, brown bear, Domestic ferret, Pine marten
2023
Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Keywords: adult mortality, first-year mortality, life expectancy, lifespan equality, population welfare
2023
Applying welfare science to bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: affective states, animal welfare, animal-based measures, bottlenose dolphins, cetaceans, welfare assessment
2017
Bottlenose dolphins engaging in more social affiliative behaviour judge ambiguous cues more optimistically
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: *cognitive bias, affiliative behavior, animal emotion, animal welfare, anticipatory, behavior, behavioral sciences, bias, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive, judgment bias, mood, neurosciences, optimism, social behavior, state, stress, synchronous swimming, tursiops-truncatus, welfare
2017
Feather-pecking and injurious pecking in organic laying hens in 107 flocks from eight European countries
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, clinical scoring, free range, layers, management, poultry
2017
Keel-bone damage and foot injuries in commercial laying hens in Denmark
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, foot injuries, housing system, keel bone damage, laying hen, production system
2016
C-Well: The development of a welfare assessment index for captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, animal-based measures, assessment, bottlenose dolphins, c-well®, dolphin welfare, welfare assessment
2015
The effects of social interaction and environmental enrichment on the space use, behaviour and stress of owned housecats facing a novel environment
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: adaptation, adrenocortical, agriculture, animal welfare, behavioral sciences, behavioural stress, boarding catteries, cat welfare, dairy & animal science, dogs, domestic cats, environmental enrichment, faecal glucocorticoids, felis-sylvestris-catus, function, pairs, sciences, scoring, shelter, socialization, veterinary
2015