Both feather peckers and victims are more asymmetrical than control hens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: development, feather pecking, fluctuating asymmetry, laying hen, skeletal traits
2017
Feather-pecking and injurious pecking in organic laying hens in 107 flocks from eight European countries
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, clinical scoring, free range, layers, management, poultry
2017
Variation in food availability mediate the impact of density on cannibalism, growth, and survival in larval yellow spotted mountain newts (Neurergus microspilotus): Implications for captive breeding programs
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive breeding, endangered species, intraspecific predation, mortality, ontogeny
2016
The risk factors affecting the development of vent pecking and cannibalism in free-range and organic laying hens
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cannibalism, free range, laying hens, risk-factors, vent pecking
2015
Morbidity and Mortality of Invertebrates, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals at a Major Exotic Companion Animal Wholesaler
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, disease, exotic animal sales, mortality
2014
Tadpole nutritional ecology and digestive physiology: Implications for captive rearing of larval anurans
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: amphibian declines, anuran larvae, captive breeding, dietary habits, feeding strategies
2014
Use of dynamic and rewarding environmental enrichment to alleviate feather pecking in non-cage laying hens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: environmental enrichment, feather pecking, laying hen
2014
Biology, behavior, and environmental enrichment for the captive African clawed frog (Xenopus spp)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal model, behavior, enrichment, laboratory research, welfare, xenopus, xenopus laevis, xenopus tropicalis
2013
Effects of feather pecking phenotype (severe feather peckers, victims and non-peckers) on serotonergic and dopaminergic activity in four brain areas of laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus)
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: feather pecking behavior, laying hens, monoamines, ocd, thalamopallial circuit
2013
Fitness consequences of sibling egg cannibalism by neonates of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: cannibalism, colorado potato beetle, fitness benefit, inclusive fitness, kin selection, leptinotarsa decemlineata
2013