The Five Domains model
Every welfare score rests on Nutrition, Environment, Health, Behaviour and Mental state - the model set out by Mellor (2020) and adopted by WAZA and EAZA.
Animal welfare monitoring & observation
Sentia turns everyday keeper observations into measurable welfare - so every animal in your care is watched over, understood, and thriving.
What Sentia does
From the first-thing-in-the-morning observation a keeper taps on their phone to the trend a manager reviews months later - one connected system, built around the animal.
A keeper records an animal in under a minute: a one-tap stopwatch, the species ethogram and a plain general-state check - built for a phone, outdoors, even with no signal.
Observations become a welfare score across Nutrition, Environment, Health, Behaviour and Mental state - the EAZA / WAZA standard, drafted with evidence and signed off by your vet.
The moment an observer flags an animal for attention or an abnormal behaviour, a critical alert reaches the vet - nothing waits for the end of the day.
Field observations flow straight into the animal's record - no re-typing into a second system, no notes lost between a tablet and a spreadsheet.
Staff scan an enclosure's QR to jump straight into an observation; visitors reach a public "who lives here" page - one code, two doors.
Observations, photos and timed sessions are saved on the device and replayed automatically when signal returns - the far corner of the park is not a dead zone.
Record a whole enclosure at once, or "pinch" a single animal for a per-individual note - flamingo with ring 123, a limp on the left leg - without breaking the round.
Activity budgets, welfare trends, coverage gaps and predictive flags - so a quiet drift in an animal's routine is caught weeks before it becomes a problem.
Five roles from volunteer observer to vet to manager, each seeing exactly what they should - in Hebrew, Arabic and English, with a full audit trail and role-based access.
Inside the product
A calm, fast interface in the field; the depth to run a whole collection behind it.
The manager's morning: whole-collection welfare, at a glance.
How it works
A keeper records what they see in the field - behaviour, enrichment, a note in their own words.
Observations roll up into a Five Domains welfare score, reviewed and signed off by the vet.
Flags, enrichment suggestions and clinical follow-ups turn the score into action.
Every entry feeds trends and reports - so welfare is measurable, not anecdotal.
Who it's for
Resources
Sentia is not a generic logging app - it is built on the welfare framework your accreditation already speaks.
Every welfare score rests on Nutrition, Environment, Health, Behaviour and Mental state - the model set out by Mellor (2020) and adopted by WAZA and EAZA.
Welfare-coverage tracking and assessment cadence built to the association standards your accreditation is measured against - so an audit finds a record, not a gap.
Keepers stop re-typing field notes into a second system. Observations flow straight to the vet - fewer lost notes, more time with the animals.
Want the full welfare-science brief for your team? Ask for a walkthrough.
See Sentia on your own animals. Book a walkthrough and we'll show you the whole flow - from a keeper's first observation to a manager's welfare report.