Aquarium cichlid fish Tropheus Moorii flexibly adjust hierarchy when tank fish species composition changes: A pilot study
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: dyadic aggression, fish composition management, hierarchical adjustment, socio-environmental perturbation, winner-loser matrix
2020
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
Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, binomial mixture modelling, captive welfare, dominance, evidence based, Livingstone's fruit bat, network assortment, social network analysis, social roles
2020
The stress of being alone: Removal from the colony, but not social subordination, increases fecal cortisol metabolite levels in eusocial naked mole-rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: enzyme immunoassay, eusocial, fecal cortisol metabolites, isolation stress, naked mole-rat, social rank, social status, social stress
2020
Aggression and social support predict long-term cortisol levels in captive tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus Sapajus apella)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: hair cortisol, information centrality, social network analysis, stress
2019
Behavioral and endocrine correlates of dominance in captive female Jackson’s hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: antelope, captive management, fecal corticoids, social rank, stress
2019
Effect of density and relative aggressiveness on agonistic and affiliative interactions in a newly formed group of horses
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: affiliative interactions, agonistic interactions, group housing, horse, social behavior
2019
EVALUATING BEHAVIOR AND ENCLOSURE USE OF ZOO-HOUSED BROAD-SNOUTED CAIMAN (CAIMAN LATIROSTRIS): A CASE STUDY IN THE ZOO OF CORDOBA (ARGENTINA)
Publication/Journal: Herpetological Conservation and Biology
Keywords: captivity, crocodiles, ethogram, five freedoms, Spread of participation index
2019
Personality in captive killer whales (Orcinus orca): A rating approach based on the five-factor model
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: animal captivity, animal ethology, animal personality, five factor personality model, test construction, whales
2019
Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: dominance rank, glucocorticoids, mating season
2018