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Behaviour-Based Husbandry—A Holistic Approach to the Management of Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors [PDF]
Animals, 2018 The field of zoo animal welfare science has developed significantly over recent years. However despite this progress in terms of scientific research, globally, zoo animals still face many welfare challenges.
Heather Bacon
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Phytotherapy in zoo animals [PDF]
Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd, 2015 Phytotherapy is one of the oldest medical disciplines and was traditionally based on empiricism (Reichling et al., 2008). Nowadays, its use as an additional integral component of evidence based medicine is well accepted in human medicine (Finkelmann ...
Hoby, S., Walkenhorst, M., Wenker, C.
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Perceptions of Elephants’ Labor and Autonomy in Zoos [PDF]
AnimalsMany modern zoos maintain charismatic megafauna, such as elephants, as their iconic residents, as these animals have been shown to hold the zoogoers’ gaze more adeptly than demurer animals.
Angela M. Lacinak
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The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Achieving and maintaining high standards of animal welfare is critical to the success of a modern zoo. Research has shown that an animal’s welfare is highly dependent on how various individual animal factors (e.g., species traits, genetics ...
Sally L. Sherwen, Paul H. Hemsworth
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How Do You Behave at the Zoo? A Look at Visitor Perceptions of Other Visitors' Behavior at the Zoo [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2021 Previous research regarding behaviors of zoo visitors near exhibits has shown that they can influence animals’ well-being. What is unclear is whether people’s views concerning the purpose of zoos or their beliefs might influence their perception of what ...
Skylar L. Muller +3 more
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Animal-Visitor Interactions and the Visitor Experience: Visitor Behaviors, Attitudes, Perceptions, and Learning in the Modern Zoo [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2021 Animal-Visitor Interactions (AVIs) have become commonplace in zoological institutions and facilities globally. However, most AVI research focuses on the effects of visitors on the welfare of animals, with considerably fewer studies examining the visitor ...
Mark James Learmonth +3 more
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One or two pups - optimal reproduction strategies of common noctule females
BMC Zoology, 2022 Background The success of animal reproduction is impacted by a trade-off between energetic costs and mortality associated with immediate vs. future reproductive attempts.
Katerina Zukalova +6 more
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Blood Parasites and Health Status of Hibernating and Non-Hibernating Noctule Bats (Nyctalus noctula)
Microorganisms, 2022 Co-existence of bats with a wide range of infectious agents relates to their co-evolutionary history and specific physiology. Here, we examined blood samples collected during hibernation and the post-hibernation period to assess the influence of ...
Petr Linhart +14 more
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Increasing Animal Cognition Research in Zoos [PDF]
Zoo Biology, 2021 AbstractAnimal cognition covers various mental processes including perception, learning, decision-making and memory, and animal behavior is often used as a proxy for measuring cognition. Animal cognition/behavior research has multiple benefits; it provides fundamental knowledge on animal biology and evolution but can also have applied conservation and ...
Garcia-Pelegrin, Elias +2 more
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BMC Veterinary Research, 2021 Background The bispectral index (BIS) is an anaesthesia monitoring technique able to assess the level of central nervous system depression in humans and various animal species. In birds, it has been validated in chickens undergoing isoflurane anaesthesia.
Maria Luisa Velasco Gallego +2 more
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