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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Husbandry protocols for the Band‐tailed pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata albilinea, at the WCS, Bronx Zoo for future conservation management programs

Authors: David A. Oehler, Ben J. Novak, Susan C. Schmid, Ken J. Huth, Aniko I. Totha, Tapan Audhya

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: band-tailed pigeon, conservation management, patagioenas fascinate

2018

The behavioral satiety sequence in pigeons (Columba livia). Description and development of a method for quantitative analysis

Authors: William Anderson Spudeit, Natalia Saretta Sulzbach, Myla de A. Bittencourt, Anita Maurício Camillo Duarte, Hua Liang, Cilene Lino-de-Oliveira, José Marino-Neto

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: behavioral satiety sequence, drinking, feeding, postprandial behavior, sleep

2013

Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons

Authors: Andrea Flack, Zsuzsa Ákos, Máté Nagy, Tamás Vicsek, Dora Biro

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: collective motion, columba livia, group dynamics, hierarchy, homing, leadership, navigational experience, pigeon

2013

Are birds smarter than mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba livia) perform optimally on a version of the Monty Hall Dilemma

Authors: Walter T. Herbranson, Julia Schroeder

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: matching, monty hall dilemma, pigeon, probability

2010

Effect of beak length on feed intake in pigeons (Columba livia f. domestica)

Authors: Savas, T.; Konyali, C.; Das, G.; Yurtman, I.Y.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, feeding behavior, morphological defect, pigeon breeds, restricted environmental conditions, side-effects of artifical selection

2007

Comparative Ultrasonographic Investigations of the Gastrointestinal Tract and the Liver in Healthy and Diseased Pigeons

Authors: Michael Pees, Ingmar Kiefer, Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns, Lucio Filippich, Juergen Kiefer, Gerhard Oechtering

Publication/Journal: Veterinary Radiology Ultrasound

Keywords: bird, intestine, liver, pigeon, ultrasound

2006

Behaviour and Thermogenesis of Racing Pigeons Housed Under Transport Conditions

Authors: J. Gorssen, P. Koene

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, behaviour, pigeon, transport

1997

Visual pigments and oil droplets from six classes of photoreceptor in the retinas of birds

Authors: JK, Bowmaker, LA, Heath, SE, Wilkie, DM. Hunt

Publication/Journal: Vision Research

Keywords: absorption, bird, budgerigar, colour vision, cone, double cone, long-wave, long-wave cone class, melopsittacus undulatus, microspectrophotometric, oil droplet, psittaciformes, retinal photoreceptors, shell parakeet, single cone, taeniopygia guttata, visual pigment, visualpigments, zebra finch

1996

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