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Behavioral Responses of Captive Corvids to the Presence of Visitors

Authors: C.A.F. Washer, N. Baur, M. Hengl, C. Köck, T. Pegger, J. Schindlbauer, L. Wemer

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal welfare, common ravens, crows, visitor effects

Year: 2021

Assessing the Visitor and Animal Outcomes of a Zoo Encounter and Guided Tour Program with Ambassador Cheetahs

Authors: Katherine M Whitehouse-Tedd, Jairo Lozano-Martinez, Jessica Reeves, Mollie Page, Jaime H Martin, Heidi Prozesky

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös

Keywords: ambassador animal, cheetah, human-animal interaction

Year: 2021

Interest in coloured objects and behavioural budgets of individual captive freshwater turtles

Authors: Angus James Campbell Thomson, Callum Craig Bannister, Reece Taylor Marshall, Natasha McNeil, Donna Maria Mear, Susie Lovick-Earle, Mirela Cuculescu-Santana

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enrichment, escape behaviour, novelty stress

Year: 2021

Linking the roles of personality and stress physiology for managing the welfare of captive big cats

Authors: Janice Vaz, Alan Gerard McElligott, Edward Narayan

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal personalities, animal welfare, big cats, coping style, glucocorticoids, individual variation, stressors

Year: 2021

Nighttime behavior and the length of social relationships in male Asian elephants

Authors: Shanelle J Thevarajah, Taylor S Readyhough, Maura Davis, Anneke Moresco, Sharon Joseph, Amy L Schreier

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: compatible social pairings, male elephant welfare, nighttime activity budgets, social dyads

Year: 2021

Assessing Allostatic Load in Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)

Authors: Kathryn E Seeley, Kathryn L Proudfoot, Barbara Wolfe, Douglas E Crews

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: allostatic load index, chronic stress, lemur catta, non-human primates

Year: 2021

The effect of different types of environmental enrichment on Humboldt penguin Spheniscus humboldti behaviour

Authors: Catherine Razal, Lance Miller

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enrichment, feed, island, minnows, penguins, sticks

Year: 2021

Discrimination of Acoustic Stimuli and Maintenance of Graded Alarm Call Structure in Captive Meerkats

Authors: Sebastian Schneider, Sarah Goettlich, Charlette Diercks, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: acoustic features, alarm calls, animal welfare, bioacoustics, fuzzy clustering, graded structure, LASSO algorithm, meerkats, natural behavior, playback experiment, suricates, vocalization, zoo

Year: 2021

The Welfare of Domestic Goats (Capra hircus) in a Zoo-Based Animal-Visitor Interaction Program

Authors: Ramont, M., Leahy M., Cronin, K.A.

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: ambassador animals, animal welfare, animal–visitor interactions, petting zoo, ungulate, visitor effect

Year: 2021

Can Aquatic Invertebrates within Public Aquaria Fit the Five Domain Welfare Model?

Authors: Kerry Perkins

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research

Keywords: aquarium, aquatic invertebrates, Five Domains, welfare

Year: 2021