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Frine Eleonora Scaglione, Cristina Biolatti, Paola Pregel, Enrica Berio + 4 more
Background The zoo is a unique environment in which to study animals. Zoos have a long history of research into aspects of animal biology, even if this was not the primary purpose for which they were established. The data collected from zoo animals can have a great biological relevance and it can tell us more about…
Sally L. Sherwen, Paul H. Hemsworth
Simple Summary Research has shown that an animal’s welfare is highly dependent on how various individual animal factors (e.g., species traits, genetics, temperament and previous experience) interact with environmental features (e.g., social grouping, enclosure design and sensory environment). One prominent feature of a…
Sarah A. Boyle, Nathan Berry, Jessica Cayton, Sarah Ferguson + 13 more
'Allesondra Gilgan' 'Adiha Khan' 'Hannah Lam' 'Stephen Leavelle' 'Isabelle Mulder' 'Rachel Myers' 'Amber Owens' 'Jennifer Park' 'Iqra Siddiq' 'Morgan Slevin' 'Taylor Weidow' 'Alex J. Yu' 'Steve Reichling'] Simple Summary It is important to understand the impacts that humans have on zoo animals to ensure that zoo animal…
Jozef Keulartz, David S. Miller, Ray Anthony, Kathleen M. Dudzinski + 2 more
'Heather Hill' 'Grey Stafford'] Simple Summary Today, the animal world is under increasing pressure given the magnitude of anthropogenic environmental stress, especially climate change and habitat fragmentation. As a result of these global environmental changes, animals are becoming increasingly dependent on care in…
Gupta Avni, Vashisth Saurabh, Sharma Mahima, Singh Randeep + 3 more
Zoological Parks serve a salient purpose of entertaining many visitors by housing various exclusive animal species. Big cats like tigers and leopard are among the most visited species in zoos globally. We investigated the behavioral response of the zoo-housed big cats to visitor densities and noise. We also aimed to…
Anne Safiya Clay, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Xavier Manteca
Simple Summary Reaching conservation objectives while upholding individual animal welfare standards presents a significant challenge for zoos, especially if some individual animal interests conflict with their conservation mission. However, the compassionate conservation movement offers a potential solution for facing…
Nicki Phillips, Laëtitia Maréchal, Beth Ventura, Jonathan Cooper
The public expects zoos to provide high standards of animal care. Failing to meet public expectations can have detrimental impacts on public experiences and behaviour, which in turn can compromise zoos’ organisational goals relative to conservation and public education. Despite increased research interest in…
Ellen Williams, Anne Carter, Jessica Rendle, Sara Fontani + 5 more
'Naomi Davies Walsh' 'Sarah Armstrong' 'Sarah Hickman' 'Stefano Vaglio' 'Samantha J. Ward'] Simple Summary Zoo visitors can have a positive, negative, or neutral impact on animals. Primates are cognitively very advanced and their interactions with human visitors are complex. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a prolonged…
Vanessa Schmitt
To understand the evolutionary development of cognition, comparing the cognitive capacities of different animal species is essential. However, getting access to various species with sufficient sample sizes can be very challenging. Zoos, housing large ranges of animal taxa, would offer ideal research environments, but…
Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Fay E. Clark, Rachael Miller
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…
Audrey Maille, Cécile Garcia, Fernando Colchero, Jean-François Lemaître + 1 more
Most zoo animals are exposed daily to human visitors, which could be a major disturbance on reproduction. Although few studies have examined the relationship between number of births and crowd size by comparing high and low visitor days, the effect of zoo visitors on animal reproduction over longer timescales has been…
Mitchell Rogers, G. Gendron, David Arturo Soriano Valdez, Mihailo Azhar + 9 more
'Mihailo Azhar' 'Yang Chen' 'Shahrokh Heidari' 'Caleb Perelini' 'Padriac O’Leary' 'K Knowles' 'Izak Tait' 'S. R. Eyre' 'Michael Witbrock' 'Patrice Delmas'] Recording animal behaviour is an important step in evaluating the well-being of animals and further understanding the natural world. Current methods for documenting…
Lara Fanning, Hannah Larsen, Peta S. Taylor
Simple Summary Understanding the effects that human environments have on captive zoo animals is key when developing management procedures that foster good captive animal health and welfare. Through analysis of behavioural time budgets of Fiordland penguins and collared peccaries (solitary- and group-housed), we found…
Nirali Panchal, Chena Desai, Ratna Ghosal
Environmental enrichment improves health and wellbeing of zoo animals. To test this hypothesis, we used Indian leopards, one of the popular zoo animals, as a model system to understand effects of active (interacting) and passive (noninteracting) enrichment elements on stress hormone levels of captive individuals. We…
Otto Brookes, Tilo Burghardt
We put forward a video dataset with 5k+ facial bounding box annotations across a troop of 7 western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at Bristol Zoo Gardens. Training on this dataset, we implement and evaluate a standard deep learning pipeline on the task of facially recognising individual gorillas in a zoo…
Konstantin Schürholt, Diyar Taskiran, B. A. Knyazev, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto + 1 more
'Xavier Giró-i-Nieto' 'Damian Borth'] In the last years, neural networks (NN) have evolved from laboratory environments to the state-of-the-art for many real-world problems. It was shown that NN models (i.e., their weights and biases) evolve on unique trajectories in weight space during training. Following, a…
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We establish a low-dimensional vector embedding of density functional approximations (DFAs) from a low-rank decomposition of the GMTKN55 database. The optimal embedding of DFAs simultaneously provides a dual embedding for chemical tasks, revealing a strong correlation between different tasks and signifying the…
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The rigorous design of adsorption-based separation processes, such as Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) and Temperature Swing Adsorption (TSA), is fundamentally dependent on the accuracy of the underlying mathematical models describing equilibrium isotherms and transport kinetics. However, the current state of the art is…
Avirath Sundaresan, Jason Parham, Jonathan Crall, Rosemary Warungu + 8 more
'Timothy Muthami' 'Margaret Mwangi' 'Jackson Miliko' 'Jason Holmberg' 'Tanya Berger‐Wolf' 'Daniel I. Rubenstein' 'Charles V. Stewart' 'Sara Beery'] - 3 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA - 4Wild Me, Conservation X Labs, Portland, OR, USA - 5 Laikipia Zebra Project, Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia, Kenya -…
Isla Duporge, Sofia Minano, Nikoloz Sirmpilatze, Igor Tatarnikov + 3 more
'Scott Wolf' 'Adam L. Tyson' 'Daniel Rubenstein'] Ethological research is increasingly aided by the growing affordability and accessibility of drones, which enable the capture of high-resolution footage of animal movement at fine spatial and temporal scales. However, analyzing such footage presents the technical…