Genetic and environmental parameters for behavioural responses towards humans in farmed ostriches
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, heritability, human-animal relationship, ostrich
2023
Extensive human presence and regular gentle handling improve growth, survival and immune competence in ostrich chicks
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, human-animal interactions, immunity, performance, struthio camelus
2020
Play in Elephants: Wellbeing, Welfare or Distraction?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: captive wellbeing, comparative play rates, early development, elephant play
2020
Social interaction analysis in captive orcas (Orcinus orca)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captivity, consilliatory tendency, ethogram, orcas, social behavior
2019
Personality, environmental stressors, and diarrhea in Rhesus macaques: An interactionist perspective
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: diarrhea, macaque, personality, primate, temperament
2018
Effects of Video Footage Versus Photographs on Perception of Dog Behavioral Traits
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: behavioral traits, dog adoption, photograph, rehoming, video
2017
Introducing Clicker Training as a Cognitive Enrichment for Laboratory Mice
Publication/Journal: Journal of Visualized Experiments
Keywords: 3rs, anxiety, balb/c, behavior, clicker training, enrichment, environmental enrichment, issue 121, mouse, multidisciplinary sciences, pigs, positive reinforcement training, rats, refinement, stress response, welfare, well-being
2017
Provision of a resource package reduces feather pecking and improves ranging distribution on free-range layer farms
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, enrichment, feather pecking, laying hens, range use, welfare
2017
Does enrichment improve reptile welfare? Leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) respond to five types of environmental enrichment
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: captivity, exploration, gentle handling, lizard, squamata, welfare
2016
Gentle interactions decrease the fear of humans in dairy heifers independently of early experience of stroking
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: avoidance distance, calves, cattle, gentle interactions, human-animal relationship, stroking
2016