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Elephant Management in North American Zoos: Environmental Enrichment, Feeding, Exercise, and Training

Greco, Brian J.; Meehan, Cheryl L.; Miller, Lance J.; Shepherdson, David J.; Morfeld, Kari A.; Andrews, Jeff; Baker, Anne M.; Carlstead, Kathy; Mench, Joy A. (2016)

The management of African (Loxodonta africana) and Asian (Elephas maximus) elephants in zoos involves a range of practices including feeding, exercise, training, and environmental enrichment. These practices are necessary ...
An Epidemiological Approach to Welfare Research in Zoos: The Elephant Welfare Project

Carlstead, Kathy; Mench, Joy A.; Meehan, Cheryl; Brown, Janine L. (2013)

Multi-institutional studies of welfare have proven to be valuable in zoos but are hampered by limited sample sizes and difficulty in evaluating more than just a few welfare indicators. To more clearly understand how ...
Evaluation of Demographics and Social Life Events of Asian (Elephas maximus) and African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) in North American Zoos

Prado-Oviedo, Natalia; Bonaparte-Saller, Mary; Malloy, Elizabeth J.; Meehan, Cheryl L.; Mench, Joy A.; Carlstead, Kathy; Brown, Janine L. (2016)

This study quantified social life events hypothesized to affect the welfare of zoo African and Asian elephants, focusing on animals that were part of a large multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional elephant welfare study ...
Individual and environmental risk factors associated with fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-housed Asian and African elephants

Brown, Janine L.; Carlstead, Kathy; Bray, Jessica D.; Dickey, David; Farin, Charlotte; Ange-van Heugten, Kimberly (2019)

A recent large-scale welfare study in North America involving 106 Asian (Elephas maximus) and 131 African (Loxodonta africana) elephants at 64 accredited facilities identified links (i.e., risk factors) between zoo ...
Ovarian cyclicity and prolactin status of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in North American zoos may be influenced by life experience and individual temperament

Prado, Natalia A.; Carlstead, Kathy; Malloy, Elizabeth J.; Paris, Stephen; Wielebnowski, Nadja; Rockwood, Larry L.; Brown, Janine L. (2020)
Relationships between housing and management factors and clinical health events in elephants in North American zoos

Edwards, Katie L.; Miller, Michele A.; Carlstead, Kathy; Brown, Janine L. (2019)

Elephants experience a number of health issues that can contribute to their well-being and survival. In managed populations, housing conditions and management practices can influence individual health, so potential risk ...
Reproductive Health Assessment of Female Elephants in North American Zoos and Association of Husbandry Practices with Reproductive Dysfunction in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana)

Brown, Janine L.; Paris, Stephen; Prado-Oviedo, Natalia; Meehan, Cheryl L.; Hogan, Jennifer N.; Morfeld, Kari A.; Carlstead, Kathy (2016)

As part of a multi-institutional study of zoo elephant welfare, we evaluated female elephants managed by zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and applied epidemiological methods to determine what factors ...

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