Animal kingdom: A large and diverse dataset for animal behavior understanding

XL Ng, KE Ong, Q Zheng, Y Ni… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Understanding animals' behaviors is significant for a wide range of applications. However,
existing animal behavior datasets have limitations in multiple aspects, including limited …

[HTML][HTML] The Conservationist's Toolkit: A critical review of the need for a conceptual framework of both in-situ and ex-situ conservation strategies to ensure the success …

DJF Moloney, C Collins, P Holloway… - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
The acceleration of climate change and concomitant anthropogenic impacts on the natural
world have led to claims from the scientific community that the Earth is currently …

Quality-of-Life Assessments in Zoo Animals: Not Just for the Aged and Charismatic

M Campbell-Ward - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Zoos should aim to provide all of their animals with a good quality of life
throughout life. Although quality of life is a complex notion that is difficult to define and …

Towards automated ethogramming: Cognitively-inspired event segmentation for streaming wildlife video monitoring

R Mounir, A Shahabaz, R Gula, J Theuerkauf… - International journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Advances in visual perceptual tasks have been mainly driven by the amount, and types, of
annotations of large-scale datasets. Researchers have focused on fully-supervised settings …

Who reviews what you do at the zoo? Considerations for research ethics with captive exotic animals

EJ Fernandez, TJ McWhorter - Research Ethics, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Research in zoos is an important scientific endeavor that requires several complex
considerations in order to occur. Among those many considerations are the ethics involved …

A large-scale study on the nocturnal behavior of African ungulates in zoos and its influencing factors

J Gübert, M Hahn-Klimroth, PW Dierkes - Frontiers in Ethology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The nocturnal behavior of many ungulate species has currently not been
sufficiently studied. However, the behavioral patterns of large herbivores vary greatly …

Why are enrichment practices in zoos difficult to implement effectively?

EK Tuite, SA Moss, CJ Phillips, SJ Ward - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Zookeepers often introduce enrichment practices in which they provide
animals with diverse stimuli and challenges to stimulate mental and physical activity, but …

Diurnal and Nocturnal Behaviour of Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) and Lions (Panthera leo) in Zoos

I Seyrling, PW Dierkes, AL Burger - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary To date, few studies have examined both night-time and daytime
behaviour of lions and cheetahs in zoos. To gain a deeper understanding of behavioural …

Sensory Stimulation as a Means of Sustained Enhancement of Well-Being in Leopard Geckos, Eublepharis macularius (Eublepharidae, Squamata)

F Krönke, L Xu - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The leopard gecko is probably the most common lizard that is kept in
terrariums worldwide. In private keeping, its popularity has remained unbroken for decades …

Comparing data collection tools for zoo management decision-making: A case study examining behavioral measures of Humboldt penguin bond strength

J Galante, SW Margulis - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Systematic data collection has become an important practice in zoos.
Here, we describe the results of a two-year study on exhibit use and pair-bonding in a …