Don’t use it? Don’t lose it! Why active use is not required for stimuli, resources or” enrichments” to have welfare value
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, zoo
2023
Parturition and Neonatal Parameters of Three Species of Rhinoceros under Managed Care in the United States
Publication/Journal: Animals (Basel)
Keywords: calf presentation, dystocia, neonatal landmarks, parturition, pregnancy, retained placenta, rhinoceros, stillborn
2023
Technology advancing the study of animal cognition: using virtual reality to present virtually simulated environments to investigate nonhuman primate spatial cognition
Publication/Journal: Current Zoology
Keywords:
2017
Assessing walking posture with geometric morphometrics: Effects of rearing environment in pigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: methodology, pig, posture analysis, rearing condition, welfare
2016
Behaviour of proactive and reactive tilapia Oreochromis niloticus in a T-maze
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: associative training, coping strategy, personality, t-maze, tilapia
2016
Evaluation of brainstem disruption following penetrating captive-bolt shot in isolated cattle heads: comparison of traditional and alternative shot-placement landmarks
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, brainstem, captive bolt, cattle, euthanasia, shot placement
2016
Creation and validation of a novel body condition scoring method for the magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) in the zoo setting
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: avian veterinary practitioner, body condition score, magellanic penguin, seasonal weight fluctuation, spheniscus magellanicus
2015
Radial-arm-maze behavior of the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: cognitive map, radial-arm maze, response stereotypy, spatial cognition, tortoises
2012
Do penguins dare to walk at night? Visual cues influence king penguin colony arrivals and departures
Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, king penguins, nocturnal movements, seabirds, short-range navigation, visual landmarks
2010
Searching in the Middle—Capuchins’ (Cebus apella) and Bonobos’ (Pan paniscus) Behavior During a Spatial Search Task
Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
Keywords: bonobos, capuchins, landmark configuration, middle rule, vector averaging
2010