Assessing and Enhancing the Welfare of Animals with Equivocal and Reliable Cues

Authors: J. V. Watters, B. L. Krebs

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affective state, agency, anticipatory behavior, appetitive behavior, human-animal relationship, judgement bias

2019

Evaluating the Behavior and Temperament of African Penguins in a Non-Contact Animal Encounter Program

Authors: Sana T. Saiyed, Lydia M. Hopper, Katherine A. Cronin

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ambassador animals, behavior, spheniscus demersus, temperament, welfare

2019

Applying Behavioral Conditioning to Identify Anticipatory Behaviors

Authors: Bethany L. Krebs, Erika Torres, Charlie Chesney, Veronica Kantoniemi Moon, Jason V. Watters

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, human-animal interactions, zoo animals

2017

Bottlenose dolphins engaging in more social affiliative behaviour judge ambiguous cues more optimistically

Authors: I. L. K. Clegg, H. G. Rodel, F. Delfour

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affiliative behavior, animal emotion, animal welfare, anticipatory, behavior, behavioral sciences, bias, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive, judgment bias, mood, neurosciences, optimism, social behavior, state, stress, synchronous swimming, tursiops-truncatus, welfare

2017

Simple but temporally unpredictable puzzles are cognitive enrichment

Authors: Krebs, B. L., & Watters, J. V.

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal welfare, anticipatory behavior, foraging enrichment, reward schedules

2017

Variables affecting the manifestation of and intensity of pacing behavior: A preliminary case study in zoo-housed polar bears

Authors: Isabelle T. Cless, Kristen E. Lukas

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: abnormal behavior, anticipatory behavior, bear behavior, gait, pacing, stereotypic behavior

2017

Does the anticipatory behaviour of chickens communicate reward quality?

Authors: Nicky McGrath, Oliver Burman, Cathy Dwyer, Clive J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: anticipatory behaviour, chickens, conditioning, dustbath, rewards

2016

Mothers and offspring: The rabbit as a model system in the study of mammalian maternal behavior and sibling interactions

Authors: G. González-Mariscal, M. Caba, M. Martínez-Gómez, A. Bautista, R. Hudson

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: circadian, estradiol, light–dark cycle, nest building, oxytocin, pregnancy, progesterone, prolactin, siblings, suckling

2016

Environmental conditions associated with repetitive behavior in a group of African elephants

Authors: Matthew J. Hasenjager, Richard A. Bergl

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, anticipatory behavior, predictability, stereotypies, zoos

2015

Individual differences in anticipatory activity to food rewards predict cue-induced appetitive 50-kHz calls in rats

Authors: Juan C. Brenes, Rainer K. W. Schwarting

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: amphetamine, associative learning, dopamine, incentive motivation, pavlovian conditioning, ultrasonic vocalizations

2015