Evaluation of visible eye white and maximum eye temperature as non-invasive indicators of stress in dairy cows
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cattle crush, claw trimming, feed rack, heart rate variability, saliva cortisol
2018
Rapid body color brightening is associated with exposure to a stressor in an Anolis lizard
Publication/Journal: Canadian Journal of Zoology
Keywords: Anolis (Norops) aquaticus, cryptic, metachrosis, physiological color change, stress, water anole
2017
Phenotypic correlates of melanization in two Sceloporus occidentalis (Phrynosomatidae) populations: Behavior, androgens, stress reactivity, and ectoparasites
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: aggression, corticosterone, ectoparasites, elevation, melanin, population differences, sceloporus, testosterone
2016
Plumage variation and social partner choice in the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: birds, flamingos, plumage coloration, social partner
2016
Ambient temperature influences birds’ decisions to eat toxic prey
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: aposematism, decision-making, dietary cognition, mimicry, nutrient–toxin trade-off, state-dependent foraging
2013
The behavioral context of visual displays in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: body posture, common marmoset, communication, facial expression, social behavior
2013
Male mate preference is influenced by both female behaviour and morphology
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: courtship, eastern fence lizard, female behaviour, male choice, proceptivity, sceloporus undulatus
2013
Moths on tree trunks seek out more cryptic positions when their current crypticity is low
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: background matching, camouflage, coloration, great oak beauty, hypomecis roboraria, moth
2013
Signaling stress? An analysis of phaeomelanin-based plumage color and individual corticosterone levels at two temporal scales in North American barn swallows, Hirundo rustica erythrogaster
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: corticosterone, eumelanin, hirundo rustica, hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (hpa) axis, melanocortins, phaeomelanin, plumage color, sexual selection, stress response
2013
Changes in the visual environment affect colour signal brightness and shoaling behaviour in a freshwater fish
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: adaptive coloration, colour vision, crypsis, melanotaenia australis, rainbowfish, shoaling, signalling, turbidity, visual ecology
2012