Effects of Restraint Stress on Circulating Corticosterone and Met Enkephalin in Chickens: Induction of Shifts in Insulin Secretion and Carbohydrate Metabolism
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: corticosterone, glucose, insulin, insulin resistance, Met-enkephalin, stress
2024
Food preferences and nutrient composition in captive Southern brown howler monkeys, Alouatta guariba clamitans
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: alouatta, alouatta guariba clamitans, animals, correlational analysis, female, food preference, haplorhini, humans, male, nutrient composition, nutrients, Southern brown howler monkey
2024
Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis
2024
Stereotypic Behaviour in Elephants
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases
Keywords: elephant, stereotypic behaviour, zoo
2024
Age and Social History Impact Social Interactions between Bull Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) at Denver Zoo
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal welfare, elephant management, group compatibility, pachyderms, social behavior
2023
Assessing the impact of environmental enrichment on behavior in understudied armadillo species: A case study
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, armadillo, environmental enrichment, evidence-based husbandry, zoo behavior
2023
Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG), cockroach, group welfare, invertebrate, quality of life, sentience, welfare
2023
Battle of the enrichments: comparing the impact of nutritional and sensory enrichment on the behaviour of captive lowland tapirs Tapirus terrestris
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords:
2023
Behavioral analysis of a captive male Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) when exposed to environmental changes
Publication/Journal: Archives of Biological Sciences
Keywords: Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), ethogram, facility improvement, mixed species habitat
2023
Behavioral responses of captive brown bears Ursus arctos to the odor of conspecific urine
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: enrichment, Olfactory stimulation, stereotypic behavior, ursidae, zoos
2023