The effect providing space in excess of standards on the behaviour of budgerigars in aviaries

Authors: Clive J. C. Phillips, Cameron Farrugia, Chun-han Lin, Karen Mancera, Bob Doneley

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, aviary, behaviour, budgerigar, flight

2018

Behavioral and endocrine evaluation of the stressfulness of single-pen housing compared to group-housing and social isolation conditions

Authors: Vanessa Guesdon, Maryse Meurisse, Didier Chesneau, Sophie Picard, Frédéric Lévy, Elodie Chaillou

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: cortisol, crf, dopamine, emotion, fos, prolactin

2015

Must marine predators always follow scaling laws? Memory guides the foraging decisions of a pursuit-diving seabird

Authors: Paul M. Regular, April Hedd, William A. Montevecchi

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: area restricted search, brownian motion, capelin, common murre, lévy flight, mallotus villosus, memory, movement pattern, search strategy, uria aalge

2013

Random walk analysis of ranging patterns of sympatric langurs in a complex resource landscape

Authors: Rajnish Vandercone, Kaushalya Premachandra, Gayan Pradeep Wijethunga, Chameera Dinadh, Kithsiri Ranawana, Sonya Bahar

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: lévy flights, ranging, semnopithecus, sri lanka, trachypithecus

2013

Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons

Authors: Andrea Flack, Zsuzsa Ákos, Máté Nagy, Tamás Vicsek, Dora Biro

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: collective motion, columba livia, group dynamics, hierarchy, homing, leadership, navigational experience, pigeon

2013

Multiple exposures to familiar conspecific withdrawal is a novel robust stress paradigm in ewes

Authors: Vanessa Guesdon, Séverine Ligout, Philippe Delagrange, Michael Spedding, Frédéric Lévy, Anne-Lyse Laine, Benoît Malpaux, Elodie Chaillou

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anticipatory fear reaction, behavior, cortisol, habituation, repeated stress, sheep, social isolation

2012

Mate acquisition by females in a butterfly: the effects of mating status and age on female mate-locating behaviour

Authors: Martin Bergman, Karl Gotthard, Christer Wiklund

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: courtship solicitation, lepidoptera, life history, pararge aegeria, sexual selection, speckled wood butterfly, territoriality

2011

Communication signals used in worker-drone interactions in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Authors: Marina Boucher, Stanley S. Schneider

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: apis mellifera, caste interactions, drone, honeybee, vibration signal, worker-drone interactions

2009

Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings

Authors: Ben O. Brilot, Lucy Asher, Melissa Bateson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal welfare, dustbathing, european starling, manoeuvrability, passerine, sturnus vulgaris, water bathing

2009

Influence of rearing conditions of pullets on space use and performance of hens placed in aviaries at the beginning of the laying period

Authors: Sandra Colson, Cecile Arnould, Virginie Michel

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: adaptation, early experience, housing system, laying hen, nests use, spatial distribution

2008