What if technology could help us better understand what animals are doing: 24 hours a day?🔬 This #ScienceLiteracyWeek, we would like to highlight an award-winning behavioural science initiative taking place at your Toronto Zoo. How animals spend their time, use their habitats and respond to changes in their environment can provide invaluable insights that help inform evidence-based animal well-being decisions. Our behavioural science program is getting an innovative boost through ZooAI: An AI-Enhanced Framework for Automated Behavioural Monitoring in Zoos and Aquariums. This groundbreaking work was recently recognized with a 2026 Research Award from zoos_aquariums (AZA) 🏆 ZooAI combines existing camera systems with computer vision and artificial intelligence to help scientists continuously monitor animal behaviour, including during evenings, overnight and other times when traditional observations may not be possible. It can transform video into activity budgets, habitat-use he...