Zoo Visitors’ Affective Responses to Observing Animal Behaviors

Authors: J. F. Luebke, J. V. Watters, J. Packer, L. J. Miller, D. M. Powell

Publication/Journal: Visitor Studies

Keywords: environmental enrichment, experiences, hospitality, leisure, personality, sport & tourism

2016

Global climate change attitudes and perceptions among south American zoo visitors

Authors: Jerry F. Luebke, Susan Clayton, Lisa-Anne DeGregoria Kelly, Alejandro Grajal

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: connection to nature, culture, informal learning

2015

An exploratory study of zoo visitors’ exhibit experiences and reactions

Authors: Jerry F. Luebke, Jennifer Matiasek

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: affective reactions, cognitive reactions, conservation psychology, predispositions, spirituality

2013

A minimally invasive method for gender determination in the prehensile-tailed porcupine (Coendou prehensilis)

Authors: Ana Margarita Woc-Colburn, Suzan Murray, Justin Lock, Jerry W. Dragoo, Dell Guglielmo, Jesús E. Maldonado

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: coendou prehensilis, gender identification, molecular sexing, sex determining zinc finger region, zfx/zfy

2013

Habituation and the reinforcing effectiveness of visual stimuli

Authors: David R. Lloyd, Amy M. Gancarz, Lisham Ashrafioun, Michael A. Kausch, Jerry B. Richards

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: learning, novelty, operant conditioning, rat, sensory reinforcement

2012

Lateral vision in horses: A behavioral investigation

Authors: Evelyn B. Hanggi, Jerry F. Ingersoll

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: equine, field of view, horse, lateralvision, peripheral, stimulus discrimination

2012

Noninvasive monitoring of adrenocortical function in captive jaguars (Panthera onca)

Authors: Valéria A. Conforti, Ronaldo G. Morato, Anderson M. Augusto, Lúcio de Oliveira e Sousa, David M. de Avila, Janine L. Brown, Jerry J. Reeves

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: acth challenge, androgen metabolites, corticoid metabolites, endangered cats, fecal metabolites

2012

Relationships between hormones, physiological performance and immunocompetence in a color-polymorphic lizard species, Podarcis melisellensis

Authors: Katleen Huyghe, Jerry F. Husak, A. Herrel, Zoran Tadic, Ignacio T. Moore, Raoul Van Damme, B. Vanhooydonck

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, immunocompetence, performance, podarcis melisellensis, polymorphism, testosterone

2009

Color vision in horses- Deficiencies identified using Pseudoisochromatic plate test

Authors: Hanggi, Evelyn B, Ingersoll, Jerry F., Waggoner, Terrace L.

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: color vision deficiency, dichromats, discrimination, equine, horse

2007

Terrestrial predator alarm vocalizations are a valid monitor of stress in captive brown capuchins (Cebus apella)

Authors: Sue Boinski, Timothy S. Gross, Jerry K. Davis

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: alarm call, environmental enrichment, fecal cortisol, plasma-cortisol, predation, psychological well-being, stress

1999