Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots
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
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
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
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)
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
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood reduction, hatching asynchrony, hoopoe, prey size, sex-specific feeding pattern
2016
Behavioural consequences of visual deprivation occurring at hatch or in the early life of chickens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, blindness, chicken, sight, social isolation
2015
Optimal husbandry of hatchling Eastern Indigo Snakes (Drymarchon couperi) during a captive head-start program
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
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
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood reduction hypothesis, great tit, hatching asynchrony, incubation, maternal effects, parus major
2013