Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology
2024
Interrupted Lives: Welfare Considerations in Wildlife Rehabilitation
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, birds, clinical wildlife medicine, marine mammals, sea turtles, urban wildlife, wildlife rehabilitation
2023
Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Keywords: adult mortality, first-year mortality, life expectancy, lifespan equality, population welfare
2023
Effects of experimental chronic traffic noise exposure on adult and nestling corticosterone levels, and nestling body condition in a free-living bird
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anthropogenic noise, chronic stress, feeding rate, insect bolus, nestling body condition, tree swallow
2018
Experimental anthropogenic noise impacts avian parental behaviour, nestling growth and nestling oxidative stress
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: breeding period, feeding rate, nestling physiology, traffic noise, tree swallow, vigilance
2018
A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research
Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods
Keywords: acquisition, animal, animal welfare, automated testing, baboons papio-papio, behavioral management, cognitive neuroscience, computerized test systems, cortex, environmental enrichment, experimental, housing, macaca-mulatta, mathematical, monkey, mt neurons, non-human primates, parietal, performance, psychology, receptive-field, representation
2017
Milk composition in free-ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus) as a model for captive rearing milk formula
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: amino acids bears, fatty acids hand-rearing, lactation, maternal milk, vitamin a, vitamin d, vitamin e
2011
Comparative analysis of knowledge gain between interpretive and fact-only presentations at an animal training session: an exploratory study
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal training, conservation education, factual presentation, interpretation, knowledge gain, learning, teaching style, zoo education
2009
Enhancing Nonhuman Primate Care and Welfare Through the Use of Positive Reinforcement Training
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: positive reinforcement training, primates, stress, welfare
2007
Taurine and zoo felids: considerations of dietary and biological tissue concentrations
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: amino acid, felidae, nutrition, protein
2007