A Systematic Review of the Use of Technology to Monitor Welfare in Zoo Animals: Is There Space for Improvement?
A Systematic Review of the Use of Technology to Monitor Welfare in Zoo Animals: Is There Space for Improvement?
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10.3390/ani11113048
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2021-10-25
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Norton T
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Diana A;Salas M;Pereboom Z;Mendl M;Norton T
确保适当的动物福利以促进野生动物保护是现代动物园的首要任务，因此需要更大的努力来改善福利监测方法。但是，比较传统的程序可能有一些限制，而技术的实施可能成为满足更有效的福利评估需要的额外工具。本研究旨在总结现有的用于评估动物园动物福利的技术研究。结果显示，大多数出版物是在2015年以后发表的，这表明该研究领域还很年轻。到目前为止，利用技术来评估动物园动物福利主要集中在大型哺乳动物身上，这可能是由于它们对全球公众和媒体的情感影响和兴趣。此外，尽管使用了分离式和可穿戴式传感器来评估动物园的动物福利，但与对农场动物的研究相比，实现对动物进行实时监测的算法仍然很少。在动物园研究中更多的应用技术和更多的类群应该是未来研究的重点，以便另一种有效的福利评估方法可以与更传统的程序一起使用，以提高动物园动物福利，最终促进野生动物保护。现代动物园的首要任务是确保良好的动物福利（AW），因此，改善动物福利监测的努力正在增加。福利评估是通过更传统的方法进行的，采用直接观察和耗时的数据收集，需要训练有素的专家。这些限制可以通过使用可穿戴或远程放置传感器的自动监测来克服。然而，在这个快速发展的领域，动物园使用的自动化AW监控水平尚不清楚。因此，本系统文献综述的目的是调查在动物园中使用AW评估技术的研究，重点是实时自动监测系统。通过搜索，我们找到了19篇论文，其中18篇发表于最近6年。研究主要集中在哺乳动物（89.5%），大象是研究最多的物种，其次是灵长类动物。使用最多的技术是相机（52.6%）和可穿戴传感器（31.6%），主要用于测量行为，而算法的使用仅在两篇出版物中报道。这一研究领域在动物园中还很年轻，主要集中在大型哺乳动物身上。尽管在过去几年中，采用自动AW监测的出版物有所增加，但它成为一种额外有用工具的潜力还需要进一步研究。
Ensuring appropriate animal welfare to promote wildlife conservation is a top priority of modern zoos, leading to greater effort to improve welfare monitoring approaches. However, more traditional procedures can present some limitations, while the implementation of technology might become an extra tool to comply with the need of a more efficient welfare assessment. This study aimed to summarise the available body of research on technologies used for the assessment of animal welfare in zoos. The results revealed that the majority of publications were published from 2015 onwards suggesting that this research field is still young. So far, the use of technology to assess zoo animal welfare has focused mainly on large mammals likely due to the emotional impact and interest that they have on the public and media worldwide. In addition, despite the employment of both detached and wearable sensors to assess animal welfare in zoos, implementation of algorithms to enable real-time monitoring of the animals is still scarce compared to research on farm animals. Greater application of technologies in zoo research and on more taxa should be the focus of future studies, so that another effective welfare assessment approach can be used together with more traditional procedures to improve zoo animal welfare and ultimately promote wildlife conservation. 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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影响因子：
1.2
作者：
Fanson, K. V.;Wielebnowski, N. C.
通讯作者：
Wielebnowski, N. C.
DOI：
10.20506/rst.33.1.2273
发表时间：
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影响因子：
0.6
作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
4.8
作者：
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通讯作者：
Pappas, Georgios
影响因子：
1.3
作者：
Barber, Joseph C. E.
通讯作者：
Barber, Joseph C. E.