The Iconic Philippine Coral Reef at Steinhart Aquarium: The Husbandry, Welfare, Behavior, and Veterinary Care Considerations of a Large Multi-Taxa Living Coral Reef System
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal welfare, aquatic animal medicine, coral husbandry, coral reefs, public aquariums
2023
Location, Location, Location! Evaluating Space Use of Captive Aquatic Species; A Case Study with Elasmobranchs
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal welfare, elasmobranch, sharks, space use, Spread of participation index, ZooMonitor
2022
Tactile stimulation reduces aggressiveness but does not lower stress in a territorial fish
Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports
Keywords: aggression, stress, tactile, territorial fish
2019
Prey behavioural reaction norms: response to threat predicts susceptibility to predation
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal personality, antipredator behaviour, boldness, oyster reef, predator–prey
2017
Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research -A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group
Publication/Journal: Laboratory Animals
Keywords: 3rs, 63, aggregata-octopiana protista, animal welfare, anisakis-simplex nematoda, branchial heart, caribbean reef squid, cephalopods, complex, cuttlefish sepia-officinalis, directive 2010, eledone-cirrhosa mollusca, elevated seawater pco(2), eu, invertebrates, octopus octopus-vulgaris, sepioteuthis-sepioidea, squid, standard publication checklist, veterinary sciences, zoology
2015
Coral reef fish incorporate multiple sources of visual and chemical information to mediate predation risk
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: amphiprion percula, anemonefish, coral reef fish, olfactory cue, orange clownfish, predation risk, shoaling, visual information
2013
Do coral reef fish learn to avoid unpalatable prey using visual cues?
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: aposematism, bluehead wrasse, chemical defence, colour, learning, pattern, predation, thalassoma bifasciatum
2013
Indo-Pacific parrotfish exert partner choice in interactions with cleanerfish but Caribbean parrotfish do not
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behavioural strategy, conflict, cooperation, elacatinus spp., labroides dimidiatus, mutualism, parrotfish, partner choice
2013
Intra- and interspecific aggression do not modulate androgen levels in dusky gregories, yet male aggression is reduced by an androgen blocker
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: 11-ketotestosterone, aggression, flutamide, simulated resident–intruder test, teleost, testosterone, year-round territoriality
2013
Response across a gradient: behavioural reactions of newly settled fish to predation cues
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: antipredator behaviour, chemical cue, pomacentrus amboinensis, predation, reef fish, visual cue
2011