Using radio frequency identification for behavioral monitoring in little blue penguins

Kalafut, Kathryn L.; Kinley, Rickey C.

doi:10.1080/10888705.2019.1571922

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“…The use of the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology allows for continuous, reliable data collection that can provide valuable insight regarding the quantifiable relationship between animal behaviour, environment, and overall health (e.g. little blue penguin, [Kalafut and Kinley 2020]).…”

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Conservation, animal behaviour, and human-animal relationship in zoos. Why is animal welfare so important?

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Gual-Sill

et al. 2021

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Section: Assessing Physical Healthmentioning

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Conservation, animal behaviour, and human-animal relationship in zoos. Why is animal welfare so important?

Mota-Rojas

Gual-Sill

et al. 2021

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“…A better understanding of animals by integrating both approaches, as seen in studies on hippos [ 48 ] and giant anteaters [ 40 ], can ultimately be useful for management decisions. The use of wearable sensors such as GPS collars and RFID tags was also found promising by the authors in determining social relationships in elephants [ 41 ] and behavioural swimming patterns in penguins [ 45 ] by overcoming possible disadvantages of traditional methods like the observer fatigue, visual obstruction, and lack of identifying certain behaviours. Similar conclusions were reported in other studies [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 34 ] where the use of multiple technologies (e.g., IR cameras, CCTV, and camera traps) contributed to minimise time and resources usually necessary for continuous monitoring, while also providing much insight into the animal behaviour associated with weather conditions and time of the day when such observations are difficult to achieve (i.e., nocturnal activities).…”

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A Systematic Review of the Use of Technology to Monitor Welfare in Zoo Animals: Is There Space for Improvement?

Diana

Salas

Pereboom

et al. 2021

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A top priority of modern zoos is to ensure good animal welfare (AW), thus, efforts towards improving AW monitoring are increasing. Welfare assessments are performed through more traditional approaches by employing direct observations and time-consuming data collection that require trained specialists. These limitations may be overcome through automated monitoring using wearable or remotely placed sensors. However, in this fast-developing field, the level of automated AW monitoring used in zoos is unclear. Hence, the aim of this systematic literature review was to investigate research conducted on the use of technology for AW assessment in zoos with a focus on real-time automated monitoring systems. The search led to 19 publications with 18 of them published in the last six years. Studies focused on mammals (89.5%) with elephant as the most studied species followed by primates. The most used technologies were camera (52.6%) and wearable sensors (31.6%) mainly used to measure behaviour, while the use of algorithms was reported in two publications only. This research area is still young in zoos and mainly focused on large mammals. Despite an increase in publications employing automated AW monitoring in the last years, the potential for this to become an extra useful tool needs further research.

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“…In this case, social learning may play a role. Both wild and captive penguins show individual variation in responses to humans (Burger & Gochfeld, 2007;Chiew et al, 2020;Hall et al, 2018;Kalafut & Kinley, 2020;Lee et al, 2017;Lynch et al, 2019;Saiyed et al, 2019), and it is possible more timid penguins take cues from others on how to respond to visitors. Adélie penguins traveling between nesting sites and the sea have been reported to "clearly influence each other" (Wilson et al, 1991), and birds can learn about predation threats and respond to alarm calls from both conspecifics and heterospecifics (Griffin, 2004;Ortega, 2012).…”

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“…In the wild, penguins spend substantial time foraging at sea (Collins et al, 2016;Fernandez et al, 2019;Fuller et al, 2019;Kalafut & Kinley, 2020;Sherwen et al, 2015). As such, although penguins in zoos are not expected to spend comparable amounts of time swimming as their wild conspecifics (Marshall et al, 2016), swimming is considered a highly motivated behavior and may promote positive welfare (Chiew et al, 2019;Collins et al, 2016;Fuller et al, 2019;Marshall et al, 2016).…”

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“…For example, reduced swimming in penguins is a predisposing factor for bumblefoot (i.e., pododermatitis;Erlacher-Reid et al, 2012;Fernandez et al, 2019) and preening gland infections (Terio et al, 2018). Together, these have led to efforts to find environmental enrichment strategies that will increase the amount of time penguins in zoos spend swimming (Collins et al, 2019;Fernandez et al, 2019Fernandez et al, , 2021Kalafut & Kinley, 2020). Consequently, factors that reduce or limit pool use could compromise welfare and may need to be mitigated.…”

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Effects of Crowd Size, Composition, and Noise Level On Pool Use in a Mixed-Species Penguin Colony

Edes¹,

Baskir²,

Bauman³

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Studies on how visitors affect penguins in human care report a mixture of negative, neutral, and positive impacts on behavior and physiology. Swimming is a highly motivated behavior that may promote positive welfare in penguins. We investigated how visitor crowd size, composition, and noise levels impact pool use in a mixed-species colony housing king (Aptenodytes patagonicus; n = 20), gentoo (Pygoscelis papua; n = 14), and southern rockhopper (Eudyptes chrysocome; n = 24) penguins. We used video and sound loggers to record if penguins were on land or in water, the number of human adults and children present, and noise levels using 5-minute scan samples from 09:00-15:00 over 36 continuous days. Data were analyzed using linear mixed models with proportion of penguins in the water as the dependent variable and crowd size, composition, and noise levels in A-weighted (dBA) and C-weighted (dBC) scales as independent variables. Crowd size was positively associated with pool use in gentoo penguins. Crowd composition did not predict pool use in any species. Noise levels in dBA, which is adjusted to the higher frequencies of human hearing, positively predicted pool use in southern rockhopper penguins. Noise levels in dBC, which captures lower frequencies, did not predict pool use in any species. No evidence of negative visitor effects was observed. Instead, these results suggest visitors are a neutral stimulus to king penguins and may be enriching to gentoo and southern rockhopper penguins.

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Using radio frequency identification for behavioral monitoring in little blue penguins

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Conservation, animal behaviour, and human-animal relationship in zoos. Why is animal welfare so important?

Conservation, animal behaviour, and human-animal relationship in zoos. Why is animal welfare so important?

A Systematic Review of the Use of Technology to Monitor Welfare in Zoo Animals: Is There Space for Improvement?

Effects of Crowd Size, Composition, and Noise Level On Pool Use in a Mixed-Species Penguin Colony

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