Integrating Measures of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites and Giving-Up Densities to Assess Adrenocortical Activity and Well-Being in Zoo-Housed Three-Banded Armadillos (Tolypeutes matacus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: environmental modifications, foraging behavior, human managed care, stress physiology
2023
Natural Habitat Design for Zoo-Housed Elasmobranch and Teleost Fish Species Improves Behavioural Repertoire and Space Use in a Visitor Facing Exhibit
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: Captive animal behavior, enclosure design, fish, visitor effect, welfare
2021
Crocodilian perivitelline membrane-bound sperm detection
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: advanced reproductive technologies, crocodile, fertility, membrane-bound sperm
2017
Age, fertility and reproductive behavior in Cuban crocodiles, Crocodylus rhombifer, at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological park
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, cuban crocodile
2015
A comparison of welfare outcomes for weaner and mature Bos indicus bulls surgically or tension band castrated with or without analgesia: 1. Behavioural responses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: beef cattle, castration, ketoprofen, pain, stress
2014
Individual recognition in a wild cooperative mammal using contact calls
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: contact call, cooperation, dominance hierarchy, dwarf mongoose, helogale parvula, individual recognition, relative rank, vocalization
2013
Three-dimensional spatial cognition: freely swimming fish accurately learn and remember metric information in a volume
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: astyanax fasciatus, banded tetra, fish, navigation, spatial cognition, three dimensions, volume
2013
Environmental enrichment for a mixed-species nocturnal mammal exhibit
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: choloepus didactylus, dasypus novemcintus, galago senegalensis, nocturnal house
2012
How Do Banded Mongooses Locate and Select Anvils for Cracking Encased Food Items?
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: banded mongooses, extractive foraging, field experiments, physical cognition, rules of thumb
2012
Learning to Avoid Dangerous Habitat Types by Aquatic Salamanders, Eurycea tynerensis
Publication/Journal: Ethology
Keywords: aquatic salamander, avoidance, eurycea tynerensis, habitat, predation
2012