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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Zoo-housed female chimpanzee adopts local female-specific tradition upon immigrating into a new group

Authors: Zoë Goldsborough, Christine E Webb, Frans BM de Waal, Edwin JC van Leeuwen

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: behavioral copying, chimpanzees, social integration, social learning, tradition

2021


Dogs’ coping styles and dog-handler relationships influence avalanche search team performance

Authors: Silvana Diverio, Laura Menchetti, Giacomo Riggio, Costanza Azzari, Martina Iaboni, Renato Zasso, Walter Di Mari, Michele Matteo Santoro

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avalanche search and rescue dogs, copying style, dog behaviour, dog-handler relationship

2017


Female mate choice copying increases egg survival rate but does not reduce mate-sampling cost in the barred-chin blenny

Authors: Yukio Matsumoto, Takeshi Takegaki

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: barred-chin blenny, mate choice copying, mate sampling, nonindependent mate choice, parental care, rhabdoblennius nitidus

2013


Mechanisms and extent of information transfer in socially foraging guppies, Poecilia reticulata

Authors: Victoria R. Franks, Rupert C. Marshall

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: boldness, dominance, guppy, information transfer, poecilia reticulata, social foraging

2013


Sharing mates and nest boxes is associated with female “friendship” in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris

Authors: Laurence Henry, Cécile Bourguet, Marion Coulon, Christine Aubry, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: mate choice, polygyny, social bonding, song sharing, starlings

2013


Vertical and horizontal transmission of nest site preferences in titmice

Authors: Tore Slagsvold, Kari Wigdahl Kleiven, Ane Eriksen, Lars Erik Johannessen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal tradition, blue tit, copying, cultural transmission, cyanistes caeruleus, great tit, nest site preference, parus major, social learning

2013


An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Video Displays for Use With Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: L.M. Hopper, S.P. Lambeth, S.J. Schapiro

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: chimpanzees, pan troglodytes, social learning, video deficit, video displays

2012


Perspectives on Observational Learning in Animals

Authors: T.R. Zentall

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: emulation, imitation, observational learning, social facilitation, stimulus enhancement

2012


Rival Presence Leads to Reversible Changes in Male Mate Choice of a Desert Dwelling Ungulate

Authors: T. Wronski, D. Bierbach, L. M. Czupalla, H. Lerp, M. Ziege, P. L. Cunningham, M. Plath

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology

Keywords: audience effect, communication networks, gazella marica, male mate choice, sexual selection

2012


Observer choices during experimental foraging tasks in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

Authors: Marietta Dindo, K. L. Leimgruber, Riaan Ahmed, Andrew Whiten, Frans B. M. de Waal

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: cebus apella, copying, object movement reenactment, observer preference, social learning, social tolerance

2011


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