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Animals, 2020 The impact that humans have on zoo animals can vary based on the species of animal, exhibit design, and individual differences in behavioral responses.
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Cognitive Bias in Zoo Animals: An Optimistic Outlook for Welfare Assessment [PDF]
Animals, 2018 Cognitive bias testing measures how emotional states can affect cognitive processes, often described using the “glass half-full/half-empty” paradigm. Classical or operant conditioning is used to measure responses to ambiguous cues, and it has
Isabella L K Clegg
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Eating animals at the zoo [PDF]
, 2014 In many zoological gardens, safari parks, dolphinaria, and aquaria (zoos) worldwide, all levels of staff work hard to create enriching environments as well as to highlight welfare initiatives. In these same zoos, however, food for guests and feed for animals are often sourced from unsustainable farming practices and/or produced under welfare ...
Brando, Sabrina, Harfeld, Jes Lynning
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Toxoplasmosis in Zoo Animals: A Retrospective Pathology Review of 126 Cases. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2022 Toxoplasma gondii is an extremely successful zoonotic protozoan parasite that has been demonstrated in a wide range of endo- and poikilothermic species. Although infection is widespread amongst domestic animals, overt disease other than abortion in small
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Potential Impact of Construction Noise on Selected Zoo Animals. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2019 In anticipation of a major construction project in an urban New Zealand zoo, a study was initiated to assess the response to construction noise of selected animal species (elephant, giraffe, emu and alligator) previously observed to be sensitive to this ...
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Increasing Animal Cognition Research in Zoos [PDF]
Zoo Biology, 2021 Abstract Animal 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 ...
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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.
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 IntroductionSerological tests can be used to test whether an animal has been exposed to an infectious agent, and whether its immune system has recognized and produced antibodies against it.
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Phagocyte activity reflects mammalian homeo- and hetero-thermic physiological states
BMC Veterinary Research, 2020 Background Emergence of both viral zoonoses from bats and diseases that threaten bat populations has highlighted the necessity for greater insights into the functioning of the bat immune system.
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 BackgroundFilarial infections have been understudied in bats. Likewise, little is known about pathogens associated with the reproductive system in chiropterans.
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