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Hall BA, Melfi V, Burns A, et al. Curious creatures: a multi-taxa investigation of responses to novelty in a zoo environment. PeerJ. 2018;6:e4454doi: 10.7717/peerj.4454.
Hall, B. A., Melfi, V., Burns, A., McGill, D. M., & Doyle, R. E. (2018). Curious creatures: a multi-taxa investigation of responses to novelty in a zoo environment. PeerJ, 6e4454. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4454
Hall, Belinda A, et al. "Curious creatures: a multi-taxa investigation of responses to novelty in a zoo environment." PeerJ vol. 6 (2018): e4454. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4454
Hall BA, Melfi V, Burns A, McGill DM, Doyle RE. Curious creatures: a multi-taxa investigation of responses to novelty in a zoo environment. PeerJ. 2018 Mar 08;6:e4454. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4454. eCollection 2018. PMID: 29568703; PMCID: PMC5845565.
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PeerJ. 2018 Mar 08;6:e4454. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4454. eCollection 2018.

Curious creatures: a multi-taxa investigation of responses to novelty in a zoo environment.

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Belinda A Hall, Vicky Melfi, Alicia Burns, David M McGill, Rebecca E Doyle

Affiliations

  1. Animal Welfare Science Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
  2. Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  3. School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  4. Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 29568703 PMCID: PMC5845565 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4454

Abstract

The personality trait of curiosity has been shown to increase welfare in humans. If this positive welfare effect is also true for non-humans, animals with high levels of curiosity may be able to cope better with stressful situations than their conspecifics. Before discoveries can be made regarding the effect of curiosity on an animal's ability to cope in their environment, a way of measuring curiosity across species in different environments must be created to standardise testing. To determine the suitability of novel objects in testing curiosity, species from different evolutionary backgrounds with sufficient sample sizes were chosen. Barbary sheep (

Keywords: Behaviour; Boldness; Exploration; Novelty; Personality; Welfare

Conflict of interest statement

Vicky Melfi and Alicia Burns are employees of Taronga Conservation Society Australia.

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