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Investigating the relationship between abiotic factors and the behaviour of an All-Male Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) Group

Authors: Austin Leeds, Alex Riley, Laura Stalter, Megan Terry, Andrew C. Alba, Joseph Soltis

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: Abiotic influences, animal behaviour, animal welfare, Crocodilian behaviour, reptile welfare

2024

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

Authors: Matthias Allritz, Emma Suvi McEwen, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Cognition

Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference

2021

Aggressiveness in group-housed rabbit does: Influence of group size and pen characteristics

Authors: Cristina Zomeño, Marco Birolo, Andrea Zuffellato, Gerolamo Xiccato, Angela Trocino

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bayesian inference, behaviour, collective housing, reproducing rabbit does

2017

Age and sex-specific mortality of wild and captive populations of a monogamous pair-bonded primate (Aotus azarae)

Authors: Sam M. Larson, Fernando Colchero, Owen R. Jones, Lawrence Williams, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: biparental care, keyfitz' entropy, life expectancy, monogamy, pair bond, senescence

2016

Isolation impairs cognition in a social fish

Authors: Manuela Lombardi Brandão, Victoria A. Braithwaite, Eliane Gonçalves-de-Freitas

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cognition, learning, memory, social fish species, social interaction, welfare

2015

Consistency of dominance rank order: A comparison of David’s scores with I&SI and Bayesian methods in macaques

Authors: K. N. Balasubramaniam, C. M. Berman, A. De Marco, K. Dittmar, B. Majolo, H. Ogawa, B. Thierry, H. De Vries

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: bayesian estimation, david's score, dominance ranks, dyadic dominance indices, i&s*i, macaques

2013

Genetics driven interventions for ex situ conservation of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus murghi) populations in India

Authors: Mukesh,, Merwyn Fernandes, Jianlin Han, Sambandam Sathyakumar

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: bottleneck signature, ex situ conservation, genetic diversity, inbreeding, microsatellite marker, red junglefowl gallus gallus murghi

2013

The effect of domestication and ontogeny in swine cognition (Sus scrofa scrofa and S. s. domestica)

Authors: Anna Albiach-Serrano, Juliane Bräuer, Trix Cacchione, Nele Zickert, Federica Amici

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cognition, domestication, inference, object choice, swine

2012

Handling Stress Does Not Reflect Personality in Female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Authors: M. David, Y. Auclair, F.X. Dechaume-Moncharmont, F. Cézilly

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: behavioral syndrome, behavioural syndrome, bootstrap, breathing rate, exploration, temperament

2012

Supplemental Material for Inferential Reasoning by Exclusion in Great Apes, Lesser Apes, and Spider Monkeys

Authors: Andrew Hill, Emma Collier-Baker, Thomas Suddendorf

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: chimpanzee, inference, orangutan, primate cognition, siamang

2011

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