Enhancing welfare in a mixed exhibit: The impact of dispersed whole food on activity levels and feeding behaviours of Mexican military macaws and red-billed curassows
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: behaviour, bird, captive animals, chopped food, enrichment, Feeding techniques, Whole food
2023
Impact of Broad-Spectrum Lighting on Recall Behaviour in a Pair of Captive Blue-Throated Macaws (Ara glaucogularis)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: artificial lighting, behaviour, husbandry, Pstiaccidae, T5 lamps, ultraviolet light, vision
2022
Can behavioural management improve behaviour and reproduction in captive blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna)?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, birds, environmental enrichment, psittacines, reproduction
2021
Should zoo foods be chopped: macaws for consideration
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: Ara ararauna, avian, evidence-based husbandry, food presentation, keeper time, parrot
2021
How environmental enrichment affects behavioral and glucocorticoid responses in captive blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, corticosterone, quality of life, stress
2018
Stress during slaughter increases lipid metabolites and decreases oxidative stability of farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) during frozen storage
Publication/Journal: Food Chemistry
Keywords: eicosanoids, lipid oxidation, rainbow-trout, stress biomarker, tbars
2016
Nutritional and physical characteristics of commercial hand-feeding formulas for parrots
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: chicks, growth, nutrition, psittacines, scarlet macaw
2013
Sex Determination in 58 Bird Species and Evaluation of CHD Gene as a Universal Molecular Marker in Bird Sexing
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: 2550f/2718r, bird, chd gene, molecular sexing
2013
Training Large Macaws for Artificial Insemination Procedures
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: artificial insemination, macaws, training
2011
Feather-picking Psittacines: Histopathology and Species Trends
Publication/Journal: Veterinary Pathology
Keywords: dermatitis, feather picking, histopathology, parrot, psittacine, self-mutilation
2008