Gorilla Activities and Social Behavior: Assessing Changes Associated with Absence of Zoo Visitors, Zoo Attendance, Time of Day and Increasing Maturity

Authors: Cathleen R Cox, Jill S Werner, Joan I Mead

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: aggression, bachelor group, gorillas, hand-reared, maturity, pandemic, self-directed activity, time of day, visitor effects, zoo attendance

2023

Trigger of twin-fights in captive common marmosets

Authors: Miki Miwa, Yusuke Hamazaki, Hiroki Koda, Katsuki Nakamura

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: birth control, common marmoset, interbirth interval, twin-fight

2023

Body mass and growth rates in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) cared for in African wildlife sanctuaries, zoological institutions, and research facilities

Authors: Bryony A Curry, Aimee L Drane, Rebeca Atencia, Yedra Feltrer, Glyn Howatson, Thalita Calvi, Christopher Palmer, Sophie Moittie, Steve Unwin, Joshua C Tremblay

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captivity, chimpanzee, growth rate

2022

Social proximities of developing gorilla males (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in European zoos: the consequences of castration and social composition

Authors: Benoit Létang, Baptiste Mulot, Vanessa Alerte, Thomas Bionda, Lisa Britton, Tjerk ter Meulen, János Szánthó, Jean-Pascal Guéry, Cédric Sueur

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bachelor, castration, gorillas, maturation, social network analysis, welfare

2020

Preparing for Life After Birth: Introducing the Concepts of Intrauterine and Extrauterine Sensory Entrainment in Mammalian Young

Authors: David J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: fetal sensory systems, in utero sensory environment, learning, memory, neuroplasticity, sensory development after birth, sensory maturity at birth, trans-natal sensory continuity

2019

Are age and sex differences in brain oxytocin receptors related to maternal and infanticidal behavior in naïve mice?

Authors: Daniel E. Olazábal, Marcela Alsina-Llanes

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: development, hypothalamus, infanticidal behavior, mouse, olfaction, oxytocin receptor, parental behavior

2016

Early life stress accelerates behavioral and neural maturation of the hippocampus in male mice

Authors: Bath K.G, Manzano-Nieves G, Goodwill H

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: early life stress, mice

2016

Growing into the self: the development of personality in rhesus macaques

Authors: Christoph von Borell, Lars Kulik, Anja Widdig

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal personality, behavioural character, behavioural development, behavioural syndrome, first maternity, natal dispersal, nonhuman primate, rhesus macaques, temperament

2016

On-farm evaluation of the Salmon Welfare Index Model (SWIM 1.0): theoretical and practical considerations

Authors: O. Folkedal, J. M. Pettersen, M. B. M. Bracke, L. H. Stien, J. Nilsson, C. Martins, O. Breck, P. J. Midtlyng, T. Kristiansen

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, aquaculture, atlantic salmon, diagnostic, sea cage, semantic modelling

2016

Prenatal stress alters the developmental pattern of behavioral indices of sexual maturation and copulation in male rats

Authors: Enrique Hernández-Arteaga, Marisela Hernández-González, Mayra Liliana Ramírez Rentería, Mayra Linné Almanza-Sepúlveda, Miguel Angel Guevara, Marcela Arteaga Silva, Herlinda Bonilla Jaime

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: genital grooming, penile erection, prenatal stress, preputial separation, rats, sexual maturation

2016

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