Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare
2023
Out of Sight, Out of Mind or Just Something in the Way? Visual Barriers Do Not Reduce Intraspecific Agonism in an All-Male Group of Nile Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, evidence-based management, reptile behavior, reptile welfare, visual barriers, zoo exhibit design
2022
Dilemmas for Natural Living Concepts of Zoo Animal Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal ethics, animal welfare, human-animal interactions, natural living, wilding, zoo animals
2019
In-Tank Underwater Cameras can Refine Monitoring of Laboratory Fish
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, end-point, fish welfare, laboratory fish, refinement, remote monitoring
2019
Personality types vary in their personal and social information use
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: personal information, personality, sampling behaviour, social information, video
2019
Stress response, peripheral serotonin and natural antibodies in feather pecking genotypes and phenotypes and their relation with coping style
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: feather pecking, genotype, natural antibody, phenotype, serotonin, stress response
2019
The effect of oxytocin on human-directed social behaviour in dogs (Canis familiaris)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: dog, dog–human relationship, oxytocin, social behaviour
2017
Gradually reducing sow contact in lactation is beneficial for piglet welfare around weaning
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: intermittent suckling, piglet behaviour, weaning, weaning stress, welfare
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
Associations between temperament and gene polymorphisms in the brain dopaminergic system and the adrenal gland of sheep
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: cyp17, dopamine receptor, glucocorticoid, monoamine oxidase, stress
2016