The Comparative Effect of Occupational and Musical Enrichment on Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Levels in a Captive Colony of Stumptail Macaques (Macaca arctoides)
Publication/Journal: Biology
Keywords: enrichment programs, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, macaca arctoides, music enrichment, occupational enrichment, primate welfare
2024
Reaction to Novel Objects and Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Levels in Two Species of Nocturnal Geckos
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, fecal corticosterone metabolites, gecko, individual differences, nocturnal species, object novelty, physiological stress, reptiles
2023
The behavioral response of the crab-eating fox to olfactory enrichment
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, canids, Cerdocyon thous, environmental enrichment, olfactory stimulus
2021
The stress of being alone: Removal from the colony, but not social subordination, increases fecal cortisol metabolite levels in eusocial naked mole-rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: enzyme immunoassay, eusocial, fecal cortisol metabolites, isolation stress, naked mole-rat, social rank, social status, social stress
2020
Corticosterone Assimilation by a Voluntary Oral Administration in Palatable Food to Rats
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: administration, bread, drug, noninvasive, refinement
2019
Neurophysiological correlates of stereotypic behaviour in a model carnivore species
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: basal ganglia, Dorsal striatum, environmental enrichment, Index Medicus, mink, stereotypic behaviour, Ventral striatum
2019
The effects of kennel size and exercise on the behaviour and stress physiology of individually-housed greyhounds
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: exercise, greyhounds, housing, space allowance, welfare
2018
Fathers’ cortisol and testosterone in the days around infants’ births predict later paternal involvement
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: endocrine reactivity, fatherhood, hormones, newborns, paternal care, psychobiology
2018
In‐house monitoring of steroid hormone metabolites in urine informs breeding management of a giant anteater (Myrmechophaga tridactyla)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: estrogen, non-invasive, pregnancy, progesterone, xenarthra
2018
Stress response of farmed European abalone reveals rapid domestication process in absence of intentional selection
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: abalone aquaculture, behavioural adaptation, domestication syndrome, farm stressors, immune response, responses to stress
2017