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Future Directions for Personality Research: Contributing New Insights to the Understanding of Animal Behavior

Authors: Vanessa Wilson, Anja Guenther, Oyvind Overli, Martin W. Seltmann, Drew Altschul

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, developmental plasticity, endocrinology, fitness, individual differences, longevity, personality, stress coping, wellbeing

Year: 2019

Investigating individual and social behaviour of the Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita): behavioural variety and welfare

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Valentina Valsecchi, Camillo Sandri, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: Behavioural Variety Index, ethogram, threskiornithidae, welfare

Year: 2018

Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Authors: Aneesh P. H. Bose, Daniel Zayonc, Nikolaos Avrantinis, Natasha Ficzycz, Jonathan Fischer-Rush, Fiona T. Francis, Siobhan Gray, Faye Manning, Haley Robb, Coralee Schmidt, Christine Spice, Aari Umedaly, Jeff Warden, Isabelle M. Cote

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal welfare, Echinoderm, invertebrate, reintroduction, relocation, stress

Year: 2019

What is animal happiness?

Authors: Laura E. Webb, Ruut Veenhoven, Jes Lynning Harfeld, Margit Bak Jensen

Publication/Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Keywords: affect balance, animal welfare, human happiness, typical level of affect

Year: 2019

Case Studies of the Impacts of Cataract Surgery on Crested Penguin Welfare

Authors: Matthew R. Heintz, Grace A. Fuller, Sarah J. Woodhouse, Anna Murray, Stephanie M. Allard

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, geriatric, macaroni penguin, phacoemulsifcation, rockhopper penguin

Year: 2019

Drivers of stereotypic behaviour and physiological stress among captive jungle cat (Felis chaus Schreber, 1777) in India

Authors: Loganathan Marinath, Janice Vaz, Dileep Kumar, Krishnamoorthy Thiyagesan, Nagarajan Baskaran

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, biological and environmental factors, faecal glucocorticoid metabolite, small felid, stereotype

Year: 2019

The behavioral effects of exhibit size versus complexity in African elephants: A potential solution for smaller spaces

Authors: Nancy L. Scott, Chase A. LaDue

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal behavior, case study, evidence-based management, zoo animal welfare

Year: 2019

Does Enrichment Improve Well Being in Animals under Human Care? A Case Study of Two Harbor Seals (Phoca Vitulina)

Authors: Ruta Vaicekauskaite, Jennifer N. Schneider, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: enrichment, human-animal interactions, seals, welfare

Year: 2019

Monitoring the social behavior of a bachelor mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) dyad participating in touchscreen-mediated cognitive testing

Authors: Austin Leeds, Kristen E. Lukas

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: affiliative behavior, animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, cognitive testing, mandrill

Year: 2019

Activity budget and spatial distribution of Bennett’s wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus) in open versus closed exhibit designs

Authors: Julie Beaudin-Judd, Robert B. Weladji, Louis Lazure, Patrick Pare

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal behavior, exhibit design, visitor effects

Year: 2019