Knowledge‐based enrichment: Development of a novel enrichment device for captive chimpanzees
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: chimpanzees, environmental enrichment, prior knowledge
2021
Antagonism of V1b receptors promotes maternal motivation to retrieve pups in the MPOA and impairs pup-directed behavior during maternal defense in the mpBNST of lactating rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: arginine-vasopressin, maternal aggression, maternal care, maternal defense test, pup retrieval test, ssr149415, v1a receptor, v1b receptor
2016
Early bi-parental separation or neonatal paternal deprivation in mandarin voles reduces adult offspring paternal behavior and alters serum corticosterone levels and neurochemistry
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: corticosterone, early life environment, mandarin vole (microtus mandarinus), medial preoptic area, nucleus accumbens, paternal behavior
2015
Early transfer of mated females into the maternity unit reduces stress and increases maternal care in farm mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, hpa axis, maternal behaviour, neovison vison aka mustela vison, nest building, reproduction, stress
2015
Directed seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding rodent: the effects of soil water content
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: directed seed dispersal, scatter-hoarding rodent, siberian chipmunk, soil water content, tamias sibiricus
2013
Foraging dynamics in Steller’s jays: size and viability of cacheable food items
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: caching, cyanocitta stelleri, food preference, optimal foraging, perishability, sampling, steller's jay
2013
Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, flexibly switch caching and pilfering tactics in response to social context
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behavioural flexibility, cache protection, corvid, eurasian jay, garrulus glandarius, pilfering, social cognition
2012
Experience-facilitated improvements in pup retrieval; evidence for an epigenetic effect
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: cbp, epigenetics, hdac inhibition, maternal experience, oxytocin, sodium butyrate
2012
Mink with Divergent Activity Levels have Divergent Reproductive Strategies
Publication/Journal: Ethology
Keywords: activity level, mink, reproductive strategies
2012
Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, share food in the same way after collaborative and individual food acquisition
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: chimpanzee, collaboration, competition, dominance, fairness, food sharing, pan troglodytes
2011