Training Reduces Stress in Human-Socialised Wolves to the Same Degree as in Dogs

Authors: A. D. Vasconcellos, Z. Viranyi, F. Range, C. Ades, J. K. Scheidegger, E. Mostl, K. Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: stress, training, welfare, wolves

2016

The influence of local enhancement on choice performances in African Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) and jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

Authors: Mikolasch, Sandra; Kotrschal, Kurt; Schloegl, Christian

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: african grey parrots, delay, jackdaws, local enhancement, two-choice task

2012

Unpredictable mild stressors on laying females influence the composition of Japanese quail eggs and offspring’s phenotype

Authors: Floriane Guibert, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Sophie Lumineau, Kurt Kotrschal, Aline Bertin, Christophe Petton, Erich Möstl, Cécilia Houdelier

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral development, behavioural development, coturnix c. japonica, maternal effects, prenatal stress, yolk steroids

2011

Enhanced social learning between siblings in common ravens, Corvus corax

Authors: Christine Schwab, Thomas Bugnyar, Christian Schloegl, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: affiliation, cognition, common raven, corvus corax, siblings, social learning, social relations

2008

Habituation to humans affects yolk steroid levels and offspring phenotype in quail

Authors: Aline Bertin, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Cécilia Houdelier, Sophie Lumineau, Erich Möstl, Alexandra Kuchar, Katharina Hirschenhauser, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: androgens, behavior, coturnix japonica, eggs' quality, growth, human disturbances, maternal effects, progesterone, yolk steroids

2008

Individualities in a flock of free-roaming greylag geese: Behavioral and physiological consistency over time and across situations

Authors: Simona Kralj-Fiser, Isabella B. R. Scheiber, Andrej Blejec, Erich Moestl, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: affiliative behaviors, aggressiveness, corticosterone, handling, heritability, individuality, personality, repeatability, testosterone

2007

Sampling Effort/Frequency Necessary to Infer Individual Acute Stress Responses from Fecal Analysis in Greylag Geese (Anser anser)

Authors: Scheiber, IB, Kralj, S, Kotrschal, K.

Publication/Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Keywords: anser anser, corticosterone–immunoreactive metabolites, greylag goose, individual variation, noninvasive sampling, sampling effort, short-term stress response

2005

Early social influence on nestling development in Waldrapp ibis (Geronticus eremita)

Authors: Angelika Tintner, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: growth, hand-raising, nestling competition, ontogeny, socialization, threskiornithidae

2002