Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te weten te komen of bezoekers in losloopverblijven een meer positieve beleving ervaren dan in niet-losloopverblijven en in hoeverre de bezoekers het gedrag van de apen beïnvloeden. Uit de resultaten van het onderzoek zijn 3 aanbevelingen naar voren gekomen. Aanbevolen …

Sinds in 2009 de Regeling Agressieve Dieren (RAD), opgezet in 1993, is afgeschaft, mag er weer gefokt worden met pitbullachtige honden. Rassen die geclassificeerd worden als ‘pitbullachtige hond’ bezitten een aantal karaktereigenschappen die ervoor zorgen dat een goede opvoeding belangrijk is. De verschillende …

Recently, Lévy walks have been put forward as a new paradigm for animalsearch and many cases have been made for its presence in nature. However,it remains debated whether Lévy walks are an inherent behavioural strategyor emerge from the animal reacting to its habitat. Here, we demonstratesignatures …

Due to their high adaptability and opportunistic predation behaviour feral cats have a great impact on worldwide bird biodiversity in particular on islands. However not much is known about their actual behaviour and time budget, as direct behavioural observations often are difficult regarding free-ranging …

A focus of information on production systems calls for more knowledge on the naturalness in behaviour of semi wild living cattle. Broadening this knowledge database is beneficial to the increased use of cattle in conservation as well as more traditional farming methods. This study therefore investigated …

Mixed-species enclosures are becoming an increasingly popular form of housing species in zoological parks. The ratites ostrich, emu and rhea are an example of species being kept in mixed-species enclosures, most often with species such as giraffes, zebras, antelopes species or other bird species such …

Huifbedrijden heeft te maken met verschillende factoren. Hierbij kan gekeken worden naar een goede therapeutische werking voor de cliënt, maar ook het welzijn van het paard speelt hierin een belangrijke rol. In deze scriptie is daarom ook onderzoek gedaan naar de stressgedragingen van het paard tijdens …

Conventional dairy husbandry systems acknowledge animal welfare guided by Brambel’s five freedoms. The concept of natural, or normal behaviour would in contrast to Brambel’s convention, be based on stability through chance and offers a less anthropocentric and more naturalistic approach. The present …

The present research has been conducted to make a first step towards bringing the wildlife research on free roaming horses and the research on domesticated horses closer together. Housing systems for horses should be arranged in a way, so that the animals are least constrained in their natural development …

Due to improved zoo practices, longevity in zoo animals has increased. In comparison to the wild, many species become much older in captivity. Senescence follows a different path in each species and is therefore hard to generalize towards other species. Insights into the process of senescence in animals …