The use of a simple and practical water-based enrichment in a pair of lion-tailed macaques

Authors: Rebecca Newman, Thomas Quirke, Sean McKeown, Ruth Riordan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: environmental enrichment, evaluating enrichment, macaca silenus, primate, zoo

2024

The effect of a new enclosure on the behaviour of a large captive group of lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus

Authors: Rebecca Newman, Sean McKeown, Thomas Quirke, Ruth M O'Riordan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enclosure, enrichment, visitor effect

2021

Aquarium Tank Design Is Integral to the Elimination of Mantle Abrasion in the Captive Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa): A Case Study at Macduff Marine Aquarium

Authors: Lauren E Smith, Christopher Rowe, Frazer Mackay, Claire Matthews, Christopher GG Matthews

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: abrasion, aquarium, husbandry, octopus, welfare

2020

Birds choose long-term partners years before breeding

Authors: Claire S. Teitelbaum, Sarah J. Converse, Thomas Mueller

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: breeding, mating system, monogamy, nesting, pair formation, whooping crane

2017

A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement

Authors: Caralyn Kemp, Harriet Thatcher, David Farningham, Claire Witham, Ann MacLarnon, Amanda Holmes, Stuart Semple, Emily J. Bethell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: 3rs, group training, macaque, positive reinforcement training, primates, stationing

2017

Provision of a resource package reduces feather pecking and improves ranging distribution on free-range layer farms

Authors: Isabelle C. Pettersson, Claire A. Weeks, Christine J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, enrichment, feather pecking, laying hens, range use, welfare

2017

Validity and reliability of cardiac measures during behavioural tests in pet dogs at home

Authors: Rian C. M. M. Lensen, Cécile Betremieux, Valérie Bavegems, Stanislas U. Sys, Christel P. H. Moons, Claire Diederich

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: arousal, behaviour, canine, heart rate, physiology, test battery

2017

Assessing walking posture with geometric morphometrics: Effects of rearing environment in pigs

Authors: Céline Tallet, Emilie Sénèque, Claire Mégnin, Stéphane Morisset, David Val-Laillet, Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün, Carole Fureix, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: methodology, pig, posture analysis, rearing condition, welfare

2016

The impact of streetlights on an aquatic invasive species: Artificial light at night alters signal crayfish behaviour

Authors: John Rhidian Thomas, Joanna James, Rhian Claire Newman, William D. Riley, Siân W. Griffiths, Jo Cable

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: crayfish behaviour, ecological light pollution, inns, pacifastacus leniusculus, streetlight, wildlife management

2016

Sex-specific food provisioning patterns by parents in the asynchronously hatching European hoopoe

Authors: Sophie Ryser, Nicolas Guillod, Claire Bottini, Raphaël Arlettaz, Alain Jacot

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood reduction, hatching asynchrony, hoopoe, prey size, sex-specific feeding pattern

2016