Program animal welfare: Using behavioral and physiological measures to assess the well-being of animals used for education programs in zoos

Authors: Bonnie A. Baird, Christopher W. Kuhar, Kristen E. Lukas, Laura A. Amendolagine, Grace A. Fuller, James Nemet, Mark A. Willis, Mandi W. Schook

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, armadillo, education program animal, glucocorticoids, handling, substrate

2016

Pain-suppressed behaviors in the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Authors: Jana E. Mazor-Thomas, Phyllis E. Mann, Alicia Z. Karas, Flo Tseng

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: buteo jamaicensis, head movements, opioids, pain, pain-suppressed behaviors, red-tailed hawk

2014

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