Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers
2020
Play in Elephants: Wellbeing, Welfare or Distraction?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: captive wellbeing, comparative play rates, early development, elephant play
2020
Behavioral and physiological measures in dairy goats with and without small ruminant lentivirus infection
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: behavior, dairy goat, health, heart rate, SRLV, welfare
2019
Case control study on environmental, nutritional and management-based risk factors for tail-biting in long-tailed pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, environment, feeding, pig, risk factor, tail-biting
2018
Maternal effects on offspring stress physiology in wild chimpanzees
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: chimpanzees, gestational programming, maternal effects, offspring stress
2018
Evaluating measures of exploratory behaviour in sows around farrowing and during lactation—A pilot study
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: energy status, exploration, lactation, manipulable object, novel object, sow
2017
A functional approach to the body condition assessment of lactating donkeys as a tool for welfare evaluation
Publication/Journal: Peerj
Keywords: adiposity, body condition, condition score, disorders, domestic horses, donkey, equus-asinus, fatty neck score, milk, morphometric measurements, multidisciplinary sciences, ponies, prevalence, risk-factors, welfare
2017
Gangs of piglets: Welfare and growth of imprinted and guided weaners
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, domestic pig, growth, imprinting, post-weaning aggression, weaning
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
Impact of prenatal stress and environmental enrichment prior to weaning on activity and social behaviour of piglets (Sus scrofa)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: comfort, emotional reactivity, exploration, housing enrichment, prenatal stress, social behaviour
2017