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Tool-like behavior in the sixbar wrasse, Thalassoma hardwicke (Bennett, 1830)

Authors: Łukasz Paśko

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavioral plasticity, cognitive skills, sixbar wrasse, thalassoma, tool behavior, welfare

Year: 2010

Hormonal induction of spermiation, courting behavior and spawning in the southern bell frog, Litoria raniformis

Authors: Reinier M. Mann, Ross V. Hyne, Catherine B. Choung

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amphibian population decline, captive breeding, dopamine antagonist, gonadotropin (gth), human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg), luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (lhrh)

Year: 2010

An exploratory analysis of the suitability of diets fed to a flightless insectivore, the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli), in New Zealand

Authors: Murray A. Potter, Wouter H. Hendriks, Roger G. Lentle, Donald V. Thomas, Charlotte J. Minson, Nicola B. Pindur

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amino acids, apteryx mantelli, captive diets, fatty acids, kiwi, nutrition, protein

Year: 2010

Factors influencing weight changes in callitrichids at the Bronx zoo

Authors: Elena Kaplan, Nichole Shelmidine

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: alloparenting, housing changes, illness, social changes, weight loss

Year: 2010

Conflict and reconciliation behavior trends of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Authors: Anastasia Holobinko, George H. Waring

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aggression, conflict and reconciliation, consolation, dolphins, social behavior

Year: 2010

The potential for microchip-automated technology to improve enrichment practices

Authors: Julia M. Hoy, Peter J. Murray, Andrew Tribe

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: automation, captivity, enrichment, mammals, microchips, radio frequency identification

Year: 2010

Impacts of animal traffic on the Brazilian Amazon parrots (Amazona species) collection of the Quinzinho de Barros Municipal Zoological Park, Brazil, 1986–2007

Authors: Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Rodrigo Hidalgo Friciello Teixeira, Luis Carlos Camargo, Adauto Luis Veloso Nunes, Eliana Reiko Matushima

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amazona, animal traffic, brazil, demography, zoo

Year: 2010

Successful captive breeding of Mitchell’s water monitor, Varanus mitchelli (Mertens 1958), at Perth Zoo

Authors: Glen Gaikhorst, James McLaughlin, Brian Larkin, Meagan McPharlin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavior, captive management, growth and development, reproductive biology

Year: 2010

Examining deep litter as environmental enrichment for a family group of wolf’s guenons, Cercopithecus wolfi

Authors: Grace Fuller, Leslie Sadowski, Christine Cassella, Kristen E. Lukas

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, exhibit modification, substrate, therapeutic intervention

Year: 2010

Allonursing in captive belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)

Authors: Elaine S. Leung, Valeria Vergara, Lance G. Barrett-Lennard

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: alloparental care, cetacean, spontaneous lactation

Year: 2010