The Use of Operant Conditioning to Enhance the Management and Welfare of Captive Kingsnakes
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases
Keywords: animal welfare, cooperative care, herpetoculture, kingsnakes, snake welfare, training
2023
Welfare impacts associated with using aversive geofencing devices on captive Asian elephants
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity budgets, animal behaviour, Electric shock collars, faecal cortisol, stress, virtual fencing
2023
Documenting Aggression, Dominance and the Impacts of Visitor Interaction on Galápagos Tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra) in a Zoo Setting
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: behaviour, elo-rating, fixed action pattern, welfare, zoo
2020
The effectiveness of conditioned aversion in wolves: Insights from experimental tests
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: conditioned taste aversion, human–wildlife conflict, large carnivore conservation, livestock predation, non-lethal predation control, wildlife management
2020
Evaluation of plasma corticosteroids associated with performance-based activity in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: aldosterone, bottlenose dolphin, cortisol, dolphin-human swim interactions, metabolism
2020
Using a Touchscreen Paradigm to Evaluate Food Preferences and Response to Novel Photographic Stimuli of Food in Three Primate Species (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Macaca fuscata)
Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology
Keywords: photograph, preference testing, primate, touchscreen, welfare, worth valuations
2020
Can disbudding of calves (one versus four weeks of age) induce chronic pain?
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: allodynia, calves, chronic pain, disbudding, hyperalgesia, neurophysiology
2019
Dietary management of a Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) troop to improve body and coat condition and reduce parasite burden
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: diet, dominance, fibre, primate, soluble carbohydrates, trichuris
2018
A Framework to Assess the Impact of New Animal Management Technologies on Welfare: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, cattle, cognition, cognitive activation theory of stress, livestock, sheep, virtual fencing
2018
Physiological and behavioural evaluation of common anaesthesia practices in the rainbow trout
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: 2-phenoxyethanol, anaesthetic, aversion, cortisol, stress
2018