Integrating Tinbergen’s inquiries: Mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals

Authors: Elisabetta Palagi, Chiara Scopa

Publication/Journal: Learning & Behavior

Keywords: apes, dogs, emotional contagion, ethological perspective, homo sapiens, monkeys, seals

2017

Introduction: Darwinian selection, selective breeding and the welfare of animals

Authors: J. K. Kirkwood

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, breeding, genetics, hereditary disease, selection

2010

Coloured patches influence pairing rate in King Penguins

Authors: P. Jouventin, P.M. Nolan, F.S. Dobson, M. Nicolaus

Publication/Journal: Ibis

Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, king penguin, mate choice, ornaments, plumage color, plumage colour, sexual selection

2007

Nesting success in Darwin’s small tree finch, Camarhynchus parvulus: evidence of female preference for older males and more concealed nests

Authors: Sonia Kleindorfer

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: age, assortative mating, camarhynchus parvulus, darwin's small tree finch, display nest, nest concealment, predation outcome

2007

Through animal eyes: What behaviour tells us

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, cognition, consciousness, emotion, sentience

2006

The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease

Authors: S. Mechiel Korte, Jaap M. Koolhaas, John C. Wingfield, Bruce S. McEwen

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: allostasis, allostatic load, allostatic state, amygdala, atypical depression, birds, brain, chronic fatigue, coping, darwin, doves, evolution, evolutionary stable strategy, fight–flight, freeze–hide, hawks, hippocampus, human, locus coeruleus, melancholic depression, natural selection, prefrontal cortex, psychosis, rat, stress

2005

Comparative study on the growth of juvenile Galapagos giant tortoises (Geochelone nigra) at the Charles Darwin Research Station (Galapagos Islands, Ecuador) and Zoo Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)

Authors: S. C. Furrer, J. M. Hatt, H. Snell, C. Marquez, R. E. Honegger, A. Rübel

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive breeding, conservation, diet, testudinidae

2004

Animals and ethics: an overview of the philosophical debate

Authors: Angus Taylor

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal rights philosophy, animal welfare moral and ethical aspects, factory farms moral and ethical aspects

2003