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
Computer vision based individual fish identification using skin dot pattern
Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports
Keywords: fish, individual identification, management
2021
Conservation Education: Are Zoo Animals Effective Ambassadors and Is There Any Cost to Their Welfare?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal-visitor interaction, google scholar, human-animal interaction, methodology, public engagement, zoo
2021
A Critical review of animal-based welfare indicators for polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in zoos: Identification and evidence of validity
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, polar bear, welfare assessment, welfare indicators, zoo welfare
2021
Principal Component Analysis as a Novel Method for the Assessment of the Enclosure Use Patterns of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: critically endangered, enclosure design, fruit bats, principal component analysis, Spread of participation index, zoo management
2021
Saliva and Blood Cortisol Measurement in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Methodology, Application, and Limitations
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, blood cortisol, bottlenose dolphin, saliva cortisol, stress measurement, tursiops-truncatus
2021
Studying Antillean manatees’(Trichechus manatus manatus) temperament in zoological parks: exploration of boldness, sociality and reactivity to humans
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: conservation, manatees, novelty tests, personality questionnaire, temperament, welfare
2021
Allostatic Load Indices With Cholesterol and Triglycerides Predict Disease and Mortality Risk in Zoo-Housed Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: Biomarker Insights
Keywords: animal welfare, cardiac disease, chronic conditions, lipid markers, nonhuman primates
2020
Dolphin Welfare Assessment under Professional Care:‘Willingness to Participate’, an Indicator Significantly Associated with Six Potential ‘Alerting Factors’
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: dolphins, human-animal interaction, qualitative behavioural assessment, welfare
2020
Interspecies Interactions Mediated by Technology: An Avian Case Study at the Zoo
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords: animal agency, animal music, animal-computer-interaction, enrichment, interspecies interactions, sonic enrichment
2020