Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis
2024
Out of Sight, Out of Mind or Just Something in the Way? Visual Barriers Do Not Reduce Intraspecific Agonism in an All-Male Group of Nile Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, evidence-based management, reptile behavior, reptile welfare, visual barriers, zoo exhibit design
2022
Age-Dependent Enclosure Use in Juvenile Chinese Crocodile Lizards, Shinisaurus crocodilurus crocodilurus
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal welfare, captive management, niche use, resource
2021
Evaluating Environmental Enrichment Methods in Three Zoo-Housed Varanidae Lizard Species
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: behavior, environmental enrichment, evidence based, husbandry, lizard, reptile, welfare, zoo
2021
Evaluating the Effect of Visitor Presence on Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) Behavior
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, visitor effect, zoo
2021
Impacts of the season and reproductive status on fecal reproductive and adrenocortical steroid metabolites in zoo Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: crocodilians, fecal hormone metabolites, zoo management
2020
Crocodilian perivitelline membrane-bound sperm detection
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: advanced reproductive technologies, crocodile, fertility, membrane-bound sperm
2017
A new marker based on the avian spindlin gene that is able to sex most birds, including species problematic to sex with CHD markers
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: aves, bird, data validation, sex typing, spindlin gene, w and z chromosomes
2016
Age, fertility and reproductive behavior in Cuban crocodiles, Crocodylus rhombifer, at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological park
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, cuban crocodile
2015
Play Behavior in Crocodilians
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: alligator, behavior, caiman, crocodile, object, play, sociality
2015