Phylogenetic comparative methods: Harnessing the power of species diversity to investigate welfare issues in captive wild animals

Testing the effect of dietary carotenoids on larval survival, growth and development in the critically endangered southern corroboree frog

(2017) Phillip G. Byrne et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

Stereotypic route tracing in captive Carnivora is predicted by species-typical home range sizes and hunting styles

(2016) Jeanette Kroshko et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Housing and Demographic Risk Factors Impacting Foot and Musculoskeletal Health in African Elephants [Loxodonta africana] and Asian Elephants [Elephas maximus] in North American Zoos

(2016) Michele A. Miller et al.   PLoS One

Seasonal mortality in zoo ruminants

(2016) Lea Carisch et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

IUCN Guidelines for Determining When and How Ex Situ Management Should Be Used in Species Conservation

(2016) Philip J.K. McGowan et al.   Conservation Letters

Rphylopars: fast multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods for missing data and within-species variation

(2016) Eric W. Goolsby et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Days and Nights of Zoo Elephants: Using Epidemiology to Better Understand Stereotypic Behavior of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in North American Zoos

(2016) Brian J. Greco et al.   PLoS One

Limits to captive breeding of mammals in zoos

(2015) John Alroy   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Towards more individual-based and fitness-oriented captive mammal population management

(2015) Werner Kaumanns et al.   CURRENT SCIENCE

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

Going Cheap: Determinants of Bird Price in the Taiwanese Pet Market

(2015) Shan Su et al.   PLoS One

E x situ conservation planning is more complicated than prioritizing the keeping of threatened species in zoos

(2014) A. E. Bowkett   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Zoo visitor effect on mammal behaviour: Does noise matter?

(2014) Sandra Quadros et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ecological generalism and behavioural innovation in birds: technical intelligence or the simple incorporation of new foods?

(2014) Simon Ducatez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A test of the metabolic theory of ecology with two longevity data sets reveals no common cause of scaling in biological times

(2014) Jean-François Lemaître et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

A Linear-Time Algorithm for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Trait Evolution Models

(2014) Lam si Tung Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Implementing unpredictability in feeding enrichment for Malayan sun bears (Helarctos malayanus)

(2014) Marion Schneider et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

Plastic animals in cages: behavioural flexibility and responses to captivity

(2013) Georgia Mason et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual and environmental factors associated with stereotypic behavior and fecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in zoo housed polar bears

(2013) David Shepherdson et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Socio-ecological factors correlate with levels of stereotypic behavior in zoo-housed primates

(2013) Ori Pomerantz et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Innovating Innovation Rate and Its Relationship with Brains, Ecology and General Intelligence

(2013) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Zoos through the Lens of the IUCN Red List: A Global Metapopulation Approach to Support Conservation Breeding Programs

(2013) Dalia A. Conde et al.   PLoS One

Environmentally Enriched Male Mink Gain More Copulations than Stereotypic, Barren-Reared Competitors

(2013) María Díez-León et al.   PLoS One

An investigation into the use of music as potential auditory enrichment for moloch gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

(2013) Emma K. Wallace et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

DISENTANGLING EVOLUTIONARY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYLOGENETIC CONFIRMATORY PATH ANALYSIS

(2012) Achaz von Hardenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

Comparing free-ranging and captive populations reveals intra-specific variation in aging rates in large herbivores

(2012) Jean-François Lemaître et al.   EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY

Behavioral and Hormonal Consequences of Transporting Giant Pandas From China to the United States

(2012) Rebecca J. Snyder et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Fast likelihood calculations for comparative analyses

(2012) Robert P. Freckleton   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Are Dolphins Too Smart for Captivity?

(2011) D. Grimm   SCIENCE

An Emerging Role of Zoos to Conserve Biodiversity

(2011) D. A. Conde et al.   SCIENCE

Ultraviolet Radiation on Innate Immunity and Growth of Broad-Snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris): Implications for Facilities Design

(2011) Pablo Ariel Siroski et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

Visitor reaction to pacing behavior: influence on the perception of animal care and interest in supporting zoological institutions

(2011) Lance J. Miller   ZOO BIOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Relevance of management and feeding regimens on life expectancy in captive deer

(2010) Dennis W. H. Müller et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH

Dealing with collinearity in behavioural and ecological data: model averaging and the problems of measurement error

(2010) Robert P. Freckleton   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

(2010) J. D. HADFIELD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mating system, feeding type and ex situ conservation effort determine life expectancy in captive ruminants

(2010) D. W. H. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species differences in responses to captivity: stress, welfare and the comparative method

(2010) Georgia J. Mason   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

(2009) Sarah E. Overington et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis

(2009) R. P. FRECKLETON   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Primate ecology and social organization

(2009) T. H. Clutton-Brock et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Phylogenetic Logistic Regression for Binary Dependent Variables

(2009) Anthony R. Ives et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparative Methods with Sampling Error and Within‐Species Variation: Contrasts Revisited and Revised

(2008) Joseph Felsenstein   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

(2008) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION