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Effect of rapid modulation of circulating plasma testosterone concentration on begging, aggressive behavior and competition for food in black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) chicks

Authors: Giuseppe Boncoraglio, Ton G. G. Groothuis

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: aggressive behavior, androgens, begging behavior, sibling competition, testosterone

2013


Sex-specific effects of postnatal testosterone on lateralization in cichlid fish

Authors: Sara M. Schaafsma, Ton G. G. Groothuis

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aequidens rivulatus, behavioral lateralization, behavioural lateralization, cerebral asymmetry, cichlid fish, developmental plasticity, sex difference, steroid hormone, testosterone

2011


Avian personalities: characterization and epigenesis

Authors: Ton G. G. Groothuis, Claudio Carere

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: assortative mating, behavioral profiles, behavioral syndromes, behavioural profiles, behavioural syndromes, birds, coping styles, epigenesis, fitness, ontogeny, personality

2005


Investigating Maternal Hormones in Avian Eggs: Measurement, Manipulation, and Interpretation

Authors: T.G. Groothuis, N. Engelhardt

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

Keywords: animals, birds/metabolism, female, gonadal steroid hormones/analysis, hormones/analysis, ovum/chemistry, reproducibility of results, sensitivity and specificity. specimen handling, steroids/analysis of variance

2005


Prenatal light exposure affects early feather-pecking behaviour in the domestic chick

Authors: B. Riedstra, T. G. G. Groothuis

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: feather pecking behavior

2004


Does prey matter? Geographic variation in antipredator responses of hatchlings of a Japanese natricine snake (Rhabdophis tigrinus)

Authors: A. Mori, G.M Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animals, arousal/physiology, biological evolution, bufanolides/metabolism, bufonidae, exocrine glands/secretion, female, food habits. geography, male predatory behavior/physiology, snakes physiology, snakes/genetics, social environment

2000


Environmentally enriched dog housing

Authors: G. G. Loveridge

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dog housing, environmental enrichment, human–pet relationship, husbandry

1998


Human Bear bonding in research on black bear behavior

Authors: G.M Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Cambridge University Press

Keywords:

1992


Food preference testing of captive black bears

Authors: E. S. Bacon, G.M Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Bears: Their Biology and Management

Keywords: controlled conditions, food items, food preference, native food, non-native food, seminatural enclosure, ursus americanus, young captive female black bear

1980


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