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 multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: colletive behaviour, environmental stressors, gasterosteus aculeatus, group personality, stickleback, thigmotaxis
2020
Automated detection and characterisation of rumination in sheep using in vivo electrophysiology
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: dysphagia, electroencephalogram, electromyogram, electrooculogram, mastication
2016
Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: animal welfare, laboratory animals, social science
2016
Blunted hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal axis response to predator odor predicts high stress reactivity
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, avoidance, hpa axis, paraventricular nucleus, stress
2015
Comparison of the genetic variation of captive ring-tailed lemurs with a wild population in Madagascar
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captivity, conservation, genetic variability, lemur catta, microsatellites, mtdna sequences
2015
A modified operational sequence methodology for zoo exhibit design and renovation: Conceptualizing animals, staff, and visitors as interdependent coworkers
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: human factors, operational sequence diagrams, welfare, zoo exhibit design
2014
The combined behavioural tendencies of predator and prey mediate the outcome of their interaction
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal personality, behavioural syndrome, black widow spider, field cricket, gryllus integer, intraspecific variation, latrodectus hesperus, predator–prey interactions, trade-off
2013
Death of the Alpha: Within-Community Lethal Violence Among Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains National Park
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: alpha male, gang attack, mahale, pan troglodytes
2013
Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) understand connectivity in the skewered grape tool task
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: connectivity physical cognition, orangutans, skewer task, tools
2013