A review of interspecific social play among nonhuman animals

Authors: Heather J. B. Brooks, Gordon M. Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: animal play, cognition, communication, Heterospecific play, Interspecies play, Reddit, social play, species recognition, youtube

2023

Physical and behavioral indicators associated with hormonal changes during musth in zoo-housed and free-ranging Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Authors: Chase A LaDue, Kathleen E Hunt, MG Sachintha M Samaraweera, Rajnish PG Vandercone, Wendy K Kiso, Elizabeth W Freeman

Publication/Journal: Theriogenology Wild

Keywords: androgens, conservation, glucocorticoids, temporal gland secretion, thyroid hormones, urine dribbling

2022

Should zoo foods be chopped: macaws for consideration

Authors: Charlotte James, Andrew Nicholls, Marianne Freeman, Kerry Hunt, James Edward Brereton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: Ara ararauna, avian, evidence-based husbandry, food presentation, keeper time, parrot

2021

An investigation into keeper opinions of great ape diets and abnormal behaviour

Authors: R. Hammerton, K. A. Hunt, L. M. Riley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: *tool use, abnormal behaviour, animal welfare, chimpanzees, cultivated fruit-free, diet, environmental enrichment, food presentation, foods, gorillas, great ape, keeper opinion, questionnaire, regurgitation, reingestion, wild

2019

A multi-zoo investigation of nutrient provision for captive red-crested turacos

Authors: Alexander J. Hulbert, Kerry A. Hunt, Paul E. Rose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: husbandry, multi-zoo study, nutrition, turaco, zootrition

2017

Successful treatment of infertility in a female Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

Authors: Neil Maclachlan, Gordon Hunt, Sarah Fowkes, Melissa Frost, John Miller, Gari Purcell-Jones, Peter Sullivan, Alberto Barbon, Andrew Routh, Francisco J. López, Eluned C. Price

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: hysterosalpingography (hsg), operant conditioning, pressurized fallopian tube perfusion, proximal tube obstruction (pto), ultrasound

2017

The stress response is attenuated during inclement weather in parental, but not in pre-parental, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) breeding in the Low Arctic

Authors: Jesse S. Krause, Jonathan H. Pérez, Helen E. Chmura, Simone L. Meddle, Kathleen E. Hunt, Laura Gough, Natalie Boelman, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, hpa axis, life history trade-offs, parental care, snowstorms, stress

2016

Cognitive bias, hand preference and welfare of common marmosets

Authors: Dianne J. Gordon, Lesley J. Rogers

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ambiguous stimulus, common marmoset, hand preference, hemispheric dominance, welfare

2015

A Brief Glimpse at the Long Evolutionary History of Play

Authors: Gordon M. Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animals, evolution, play, play definition, play functions, play origins, surplus resource theory

2014