The Effect of Visitor Number on the Behavior of Zoo-Housed Macropods

Authors: Jessica Meade, Vicky A Melfi, Melanie Keith, Alicia L Burns

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, free-range exhibits, human-animal interaction, macropod, vigilance, visitor effect, zoo

2021

The Spillover Effect of a Flood on Pets and Their People: Implications for Rental Housing

Authors: Taryn M. Graham, Melanie J. Rock

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: companion animals, housing recovery, natural disaster, tenants, vulnerability

2019

Companion Animals in Natural Disasters: A Scoping Review of Scholarly Sources

Authors: Cheryl Travers, Chris Degeling, Melanie Rock

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: companion animal, emergency, human–animal bond, natural disaster, scoping review

2017

The function of strategic tree selectivity in the chemical signalling of brown bears

Authors: Melanie Clapham, Owen T. Nevin, Andrew D. Ramsey, Frank Rosell

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioural plasticity, brown bear, chemical communication, conspicuous object, energetic investment, rub tree, scent marking, ursus-arctos

2013

Care of Dogs and Attitudes of Dog Owners in Port-au-Prince, the Republic of Haiti

Authors: William J. Fielding, Melanie Gall, Dick Green, Warren S. Eller

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal care, dog owners, dogs, haiti

2012

Is risk taking during foraging a personality trait? A field test for cross-context consistency in boldness

Authors: Melanie Dammhahn, Laura Almeling

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: boldness, ecological validation, grey mouse lemur, microcebus murinus, novel object test, personality, repeatability, risk taking, risk-sensitive foraging

2012

Spatial memory in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: Mia-Lana Lührs, Melanie Dammhahn, Peter M. Kappeler, Claudia Fichtel

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: correlated random walk, euclidean map, goal-directed movement, microcebus murinus, spatial cognition, topological map

2009

Acute effects of neurosteroids in a rodent model of primary paroxysmal dystonia

Authors: Melanie Hamann, Franziska Richter, Angelika Richter

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: animal models, basal ganglia, choreoathetosis, dyskinesia, gaba, movement disorders

2007

A description of unique fluorescent yellow pigments in penguin feathers

Authors: Kevin J. McGraw, Matthew B. Toomey, Paul M. Nolan, Nathan I. Morehouse, Melanie Massaro, Pierre Jouventin

Publication/Journal: Pigment Cell Research

Keywords: birds, hplc, plumage, pterin, reflecting platelets, sphenisciformes, yellow pigmentation

2007

Sex-biased dispersal in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Authors: Melanie I. Douadi, Sylvain Gatti, Florence Levrero, GaËTan Duhamel, Magdalena Bermejo, Dominique Vallet, Nelly Menard, Eric J. Petit

Publication/Journal: Molecular Ecology

Keywords: dispersal distance, gorilla, mtdna, numt, sex-biased dispersal, y-chromosome

2007