Bold Frogs or Shy Toads? How Did the COVID-19 Closure of Zoological Organisations Affect Amphibian Activity?

Authors: Jack Boultwood, Michelle O’Brien, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: amphibian behaviour, amphibian welfare, COVID-19, enclosure usage, evidence-based husbandry, visitor effect

2021

Rapid body color brightening is associated with exposure to a stressor in an Anolis lizard

Authors: Jane FF Boyer, Lindsey Swierk

Publication/Journal: Canadian Journal of Zoology

Keywords: Anolis (Norops) aquaticus, cryptic, metachrosis, physiological color change, stress, water anole

2017

Impact of tank background on the welfare of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis (Daudin)

Authors: Andrew M. Holmes, Christopher J. Emmans, Niall Jones, Robert Coleman, Tessa E. Smith, Charlotte A. Hosie

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, corticosterone, enrichment, tank background, xenopus

2016

Behavioural indicators of welfare exhibited by the common European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

Authors: Gavan M Cooke, Belinda M Tonkins

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: cuttlefish, welfare indicators

2015

Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators?

Authors: Mu-Yun Wang, Thomas C. Ings, Michael J. Proulx, Lars Chittka

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: attention, bombus terrestris, bumblebee, foraging, predator avoidance, predator crypsis, visual search

2013

Moths on tree trunks seek out more cryptic positions when their current crypticity is low

Authors: Chang-Ku Kang, Jong-Yeol Moon, Sang-im Lee, Piotr G. Jablonski

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: background matching, camouflage, coloration, great oak beauty, hypomecis roboraria, moth

2013

Changes in the visual environment affect colour signal brightness and shoaling behaviour in a freshwater fish

Authors: J.L. Kelley, B. Phillips, G.H. Cummins, J. Shand

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: adaptive coloration, colour vision, crypsis, melanotaenia australis, rainbowfish, shoaling, signalling, turbidity, visual ecology

2012

Hormonal regulation of female nuptial coloration in a fish

Authors: Helen Nilsson Sköld, Trond Amundsen, Per Andreas Svensson, Ian Mayer, Jens Bjelvenmark, Elisabet Forsgren

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: chromatophores, female ornament, gobiusculus flavescens, melanocyte stimulating hormone, melatonin, prolactin, sexual selection

2008

The Effect of Zoo Visitors on the Behaviour and Welfare of Zoo Mammals

Authors: Alexandra Farrand

Publication/Journal: Department of Psychology

Keywords: animal welfare, captivity, conservation, education, entertainment, mammals, noise, thesis, visitor density, visitors, zoo, zoo animal biology

2007

Recognition of partially concealed leopards by wild bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) The role of the spotted coat

Authors: Richard G. Coss, Uma Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Schank

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: antipredator behavior, artificial neural network, bonnet macaques, leopards, pattern recognition

2005