Monitoring the social behavior of a bachelor mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) dyad participating in touchscreen-mediated cognitive testing
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: affiliative behavior, animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, cognitive testing, mandrill
2019
Experimentally evaluating the function of self-directed behaviour in two adult mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx)
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, mandrill, primate cognition, self-directed behaviour, zoo
2018
Maternal effects and the endocrine regulation of mandrill growth
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: body size, growth, hormones, mandrills, maternal effects
2012
Informative Breath: Olfactory Cues Sought During Social Foraging Among Old World Monkeys (Mandrillus sphinx, M. leucophaeus, and Papio anubis)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: chemical communication, ecological cognition, forag- ing behavior, primate socioecology, social learning
2009
Urinary steroid hormone analysis of ovarian cycles and pregnancy in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) indicate that menses, copulatory behavior, sexual swellings and reproductive condition are associated with changing estrone conjugates (E1C) and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide (PdG)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: estrone conjugates (e1c), mandrillus sphinx, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, pregnanediol-3-glucuronide (pdg), sexual swellings
2008
Artificial colour treatment mediates aggression among unfamiliar vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops): a model for introducing primates with colourful sexual skin
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, colour, introduction, primates, sex skin
2006
Manipulation without mind-reading: information suppression and leakage during food discovery by mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx)
Publication/Journal: Behaviour
Keywords: cognition, concealment, food calling, manipulative communication, passive deception, theory of mind
2006
Honest signaling of intentions: the importance of performance risk, receiver response, and prior knowledge of opponents in the threat displays of mandrills
Publication/Journal: Behaviour
Keywords: individual recognition, mandrillus, reliable communication, sequential analysis, vulnerability handicap
2005
Introducing a fourth primate species to an established mixed-species exhibit of African monkeys
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: cercocebus torquartus, multispecies exhibits, polyspecific associations
2004
Comparison of confined mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) behavior in traditional and “ecologically representative” exhibits
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: activity budgets, enrichment, environmental continuum, post-occupancy evaluation, psychological well-being, species-appropriate behavior
1999