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Investigating the relationship between abiotic factors and the behaviour of an All-Male Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) Group

Authors: Austin Leeds, Alex Riley, Laura Stalter, Megan Terry, Andrew C. Alba, Joseph Soltis

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: Abiotic influences, animal behaviour, animal welfare, Crocodilian behaviour, reptile welfare

2024

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

Authors: Matthias Allritz, Emma Suvi McEwen, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Cognition

Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference

2021

Aggressiveness in group-housed rabbit does: Influence of group size and pen characteristics

Authors: Cristina Zomeño, Marco Birolo, Andrea Zuffellato, Gerolamo Xiccato, Angela Trocino

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bayesian inference, behaviour, collective housing, reproducing rabbit does

2017

The effect of domestication and ontogeny in swine cognition (Sus scrofa scrofa and S. s. domestica)

Authors: Anna Albiach-Serrano, Juliane Bräuer, Trix Cacchione, Nele Zickert, Federica Amici

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cognition, domestication, inference, object choice, swine

2012

Handling Stress Does Not Reflect Personality in Female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Authors: M. David, Y. Auclair, F.X. Dechaume-Moncharmont, F. Cézilly

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: behavioral syndrome, behavioural syndrome, bootstrap, breathing rate, exploration, temperament

2012

Supplemental Material for Inferential Reasoning by Exclusion in Great Apes, Lesser Apes, and Spider Monkeys

Authors: Andrew Hill, Emma Collier-Baker, Thomas Suddendorf

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: chimpanzee, inference, orangutan, primate cognition, siamang

2011

Pseudoreplication is a pseudoproblem

Authors: Jeffrey C. Schank, Thomas J. Koehnle

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: experimental design, pseudoreplication, statistical analysis

2009

Comparative Methods with Sampling Error and Within-Species Variation: Contrasts Revisited and Revised

Authors: Joseph Felsenstein

Publication/Journal: The American Naturalist

Keywords: comparative method, contrasts, phenotypic variance, phylogeny, sampling error, statistics

2008

Measuring animal welfare: What can cognition contribute?

Authors: Nichola M. Brydges, Victoria A. Braithwaite

Publication/Journal: ARBS Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences

Keywords: animal welfare, cognition, measure

2008

Serial list linking by macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta): List property limitations

Authors: F. Robert Treichler, Mary Ann Raghanti, Debra N. Van Tilburg

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: inference, list combination, macaques, organized retention, serial list memory

2007

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