Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots

Authors: Emma L Mellor, Heather K McDonald Kinkaid, Michael T Mendl, Innes C Cuthill, Yvonne RA van Zeeland, Georgia J Mason

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, captive breeding, parrots, phylogenetic comparative methods, stress

2021

Elevated corticosterone during egg production elicits increased maternal investment and promotes nestling growth in a wild songbird

Authors: E. Keith Bowers, Rachel M. Bowden, Charles F. Thompson, Scott K. Sakaluk

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: begging, egg, glucocorticoid, house wren, life history, maternal effect

2016

King Penguins in Zoos: Relating Breeding Success to Husbandry Practices

Authors: Simone Schweizer, Peter Stoll, Friederike von Houwald, Bruno Baur

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: breeding, king penguins, zoos

2016

Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony adversely affects late-hatched hihi nestlings, but not life beyond the nest

Authors: Kirsty J. MacLeod, Patricia Brekke, John G. Ewen, Rose Thorogood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood hierarchies, carotenoids, hatching asynchrony, maternal effects, notiomystis cincta

2016

Optimal-rearing density for head-starting green turtles (Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758)

Authors: Hirun Kanghae, Karun Thongprajukaew, Sasiporn Jatupornpitukchat, Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captivity, digestive enzyme, ex situ conservation, feces, health

2016

Sex-specific food provisioning patterns by parents in the asynchronously hatching European hoopoe

Authors: Sophie Ryser, Nicolas Guillod, Claire Bottini, Raphaël Arlettaz, Alain Jacot

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood reduction, hatching asynchrony, hoopoe, prey size, sex-specific feeding pattern

2016

Optimal husbandry of hatchling Eastern Indigo Snakes (Drymarchon couperi) during a captive head-start program

Authors: Michael P. Wines, Valerie M. Johnson, Brad Lock, Fred Antonio, James C. Godwin, Elizabeth M. Rush, Craig Guyer

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: diet diversity, husbandry, incubation temperature, optimal growth, repatriation

2015

Hand-rearing, growth, and development of common loon (Gavia immer) chicks

Authors: Kevin P. Kenow, Melissa S. Meier, Laurie E. McColl, Randy K. Hines, Jimmy Pichner, Laura Johnson, James E. Lyon, Kellie Kroc Scharold, Michael Meyer

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavioral development, captive rearing, common loon, food consumption, growth, husbandry

2014

The adaptive function of hatching asynchrony: an experimental study in great tits

Authors: Katarzyna Anna Podlas, Heinz Richner

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood reduction hypothesis, great tit, hatching asynchrony, incubation, maternal effects, parus major

2013