Multi-criteria study on a change to a fruit-free diet in Cebidae and Cercopithecidae

Authors: Flore Viallard, Sébastien Lefebvre, Alexandre Petry, Irene Vonfeld, Benoit Quintard

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: behavior, fecal scoring, food intake, fruit-free diet change

2023

Go for Lipids! Food Preferences and Nutrient Composition in Zoo-Housed White-Faced Sakis, Pithecia pithecia

Authors: Vasco Alexandre Martins, Natalie Magnusson, Matthias Laska

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords: *food preferences, correlational analysis, nutrient composition, Pithecia pitchecia, white-faced saki

2022

Impact of environmental enrichment and social group size in the aggressiveness and foraging activity of Serrapinnus notomelas

Authors: Alexandre da Silva, Marcos R Lima, Paulo C Meletti, Fernando C Jerep

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental complexity, feeding activity, fish behavior, shoal size

2020

Dietary self-selection in fish: a new approach to studying fish nutrition and feeding behavior

Authors: R. F. da Silva, A. Kitagawa, F. J. S. Vazquez

Publication/Journal: Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Keywords: dicentrarchus-labrax l, european sea bass, fed gelatin capsules, fisheries, food intake, macronutrient, macronutrient selection, marine & freshwater biology, micronutrient, nile tilapia, nutritional target, nutritional wisdom, oncorhynchus-mykiss, postingestive signals, rainbow-trout, seabream diplodus-puntazzo

2016

Feeding behavior and the effect of photoperiod on the performance and hematological parameters of the pacamã catfish (Lophiosilurus alexandri)

Authors: Alexandre Takio Kitagawa, Leandro Santos Costa, Renan Rosa Paulino, Ronald Kennedy Luz, Priscila Vieira Rosa, Bartira Guerra-Santos, Rodrigo Fortes-Silva

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: daily rhythms, feeding activity, feeding zeitgeber, growth, locomotor-activity

2015

Diphenyl diselenide supplemented diet reduces depressive-like behavior in hypothyroid female rats

Authors: Glaecir Roseni Mundstock Dias, Tielle Moraes de Almeida, Jéssie Haigert Sudati, Fernando Dobrachinski, Sandra Pavin, Félix Alexandre Antunes Soares, Cristina Wayne Nogueira, Nilda Berenice Vargas Barbosa

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: depressive-like behavior, diphenyl diselenide, hypothyroidism, methimazole, oxidative stress

2014

Barn owls do not interrupt their siblings

Authors: Amélie N. Dreiss, Charlène A. Ruppli, Fréderic Oberli, Sylvain Antoniazza, Isabelle Henry, Alexandre Roulin

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal communication, barn owl, overlap, sibling negotiation, signal interference, tyto alba

2013

Partial replacement of an artificial nectar diet with native browse for feather-tail gliders (Acrobates pygmaeus) in captivity

Authors: Ella A. Herrmann, Kimberly Vinette Herrin, Wendy Gleen, Paul Davies, Rodd Stapley, Vanessa Stebbings, Joanna Wiszniewski, Rebecca Spindler, Graham J. Faichney, Alexandre V. Chaves

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: acrobates pygmaeus, behavioral, captivity, feather-tail glider, live weight, nutritional

2013

Dominant nestlings displaying female-like melanin coloration behave altruistically in the barn owl

Authors: Alexandre Roulin, Arnaud Da Silva, Charlène A. Ruppli

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: altruism, barn owl, cooperation, egoism, food sharing, food stealing, melanin, selfish, sibling competition, tyto alba

2012

Captive breeding genetics and reintroduction success

Authors: Alexandre Robert

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: mutational meltdown, population viability analysis, reintroduction, selection relaxation

2009

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