San Francisco Zoo

Recent papers from San Francisco Zoo

1. Perspectives on Standard Guidelines and Methods for the Use of Live Amphibians in Captive Rearing Programs and Field ResearchMethods and Protocols · 2026
2. A review of the ecology, behavior, and cognitive capabilities of crawfish frogs (Rana areolata) with the goal of restoring extirpated populationsDiscover Ecology · 2026
3. Quantifying stability via count splitting to guide model selection in RNA velocity analysesBioinformatics Advances · 2026
4. Do Adult Frogs Remember Their Lives as Tadpoles and Behave Accordingly? A Consideration of Memory and Personality in Anuran AmphibiansDiversity · 2025
5. Shell Lesion Prevalence and Bacteriome Associations in Threatened Western Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata and Actinemys pallida) in California, USA.2025
6. The Use of Cognition by Amphibians Confronting Environmental Change: Examples from the Behavioral Ecology of Crawfish Frogs (Rana areolata)Animals · 2025
7. Poisson Multi-Bernoulli Mixtures for Sets of TrajectoriesIEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 2024
8. Effect of Substrate and Walking Surfaces on Central Metatarsal Foot Pad Weight Loading in Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus Magellanicus) With and Without Pododermatitis: An Ex Vivo StudyJournal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine · 2024
9. Keeper effect: Animals are more active in the presence of their caretakersZoo Biology · 2024
10. Quantifying animals' perception of environmental predictability using anticipatory behaviorZoo Biology · 2023
11. CrashFormer: A Multimodal Architecture to Predict the Risk of Crash2023
12. Bacterial communities of the threatened Western Pond Turtle may be impacted by land useFEMS Microbiology Ecology · 2023
13. Trajectory PMB Filters for Extended Object Tracking Using Belief PropagationIEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 2023
14. To treat or not to treat? Experimental pathogen exposure, treatment, and release of a threatened amphibianEcosphere · 2022
15. Dither: A unifying model of the effects of visitor numbers on zoo animal behaviorZoo Biology · 2022
16. Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human careFrontiers in Veterinary Science · 2022
17. Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevityScience · 2022
18. Behavioral changes in senescent giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) are associated with peripheral neural degeneration and loss of epithelial tissue2022
19. A Quantitative Approach for Using Anticipatory Behavior as a Graded Welfare AssessmentJournal of Applied Animal Welfare Science · 2022
20. Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibiansEvolution · 2021