Abnormal swimming is associated with inner ear damage and improves with meclizine treatment and increased habitat complexity: A case study in Urobatis jamaicensis
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal health, animal welfare, aquarium science, elasmobranch, vestibular disease
2024
Catcalls: exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: *Voice/physiology, animals, caregivers, Familiar human, felid, felidae, humans, physiology, pilot projects, psychology, rearing history, recognition, Vocal discrimination
2024
Monitoring Thermoregulation Patterns in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in Winter Months in Southwestern Ontario Using Infrared Thermography
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: age, ambient-temperature, behavior, elephas maximus, infrared thermography, thermal windows, weight
2023
Behavioral characterization of musth in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): defining progressive stages of male sexual behavior in in-situ and ex-situ populations
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: elephant, musth, reproduction, sri lanka, temporal gland secretions, zoo
2022
Immune and stress physiology of two captively‐housed tortoise species
Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Integrative Physiology
Keywords: immunology, stress, tortoise
2022
Knowledge‐based enrichment: Development of a novel enrichment device for captive chimpanzees
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: chimpanzees, environmental enrichment, prior knowledge
2021
A comparison of inferential analysis methods for multilevel studies: Implications for drawing conclusions in animal welfare science
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal health, animal welfare, mixed effect models, pig, sample size, study design
2017
The effects of mining machinery noise of different frequencies on the behaviour, faecal corticosterone and tissue morphology of wild mice (Mus musculus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: anthropogenic noise, circling, high frequency, low frequency, mining, stress
2017
Face-based perception of emotions in dairy goats
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: *cognitive bias, ear postures, emotions, face, goats
2017
Farmers’ perception of aggression between growing pigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aggression, farmers, perception, pig, survey
2017