Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis
2024
Mirror, mirror on the wall… How tank material and the presence of “enrichments” affect competition and agonism in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aggression, agonism, environmental enrichment, fish welfare, Zebrafish husbandry
2023
Out of Sight, Out of Mind or Just Something in the Way? Visual Barriers Do Not Reduce Intraspecific Agonism in an All-Male Group of Nile Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, evidence-based management, reptile behavior, reptile welfare, visual barriers, zoo exhibit design
2022
Monitoring the social behavior of a bachelor mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) dyad participating in touchscreen-mediated cognitive testing
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: affiliative behavior, animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, cognitive testing, mandrill
2019
Behaviour, stress and welfare of Sprague Dawley rats (Rattus norvegicus) on diet board feeding for 24 months
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, diet board, rat, refinement, welfare
2017
Effects of crowd size on exhibit use by and behavior of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) at a zoo
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: exhibit design, visitor effects, welfare
2016
Serotonin 1A agonism decreases affiliative behavior in pair-bonded titi monkeys
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: 8-oh-dpat, cortisol, monogamy, oxytocin, pair-bonding, primate, social behavior, vasopressin
2016
The effects of witnessing managemental procedures during the light versus the dark phase of the light cycle on behaviour, performance and welfare of laboratory rats
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: laboratory rats, managemental procedures., time of witnessing, welfare
2015
Social behavior and patterns of testosterone and glucocorticoid levels differ between male chacma and Guinea baboons
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: aggression, androgen, competition, cortisol, dominance, hierarchy, papio, primate, stress, tolerance
2015
Stereotypic mice are aggressed by their cage-mates, and tend to be poor demonstrators in social learning tasks
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, mice, social learning, stereotypic behaviour
2015