Aggression and hormones are associated with heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behaviour, cortisol, lice, madagascar, primate, testosterone
2017
Drivers and consequences of variation in individual social connectivity
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: diet quality, grant's gazelle, group living, parasite infection, social connectivity, social network analysis
2017
Using behavioral observations and genetic markers to characterize the flexible reproductive system in an ex situ population of carmine bee-eaters (Merops n. nubicus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: behaviour, colony, parentage, population, relatedness, reproduction
2017
Delay, avoidance and protection in oviposition behaviour in response to fine-scale variation in egg parasitism risk
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behavioural plasticity, egg stacking, life history strategy, mimosestes amicus, offspring defence, parental investment, seed beetle
2013
Energetic constraints and parental care: Is corticosterone indicative of energetic costs of incubation in a precocial bird?
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: brood parasitism, glucocorticoids, parental care, stress endocrinology, waterfowl
2013
The exaggerated begging behaviour of an obligate avian brood parasite is shared with a nonparasitic close relative
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: agelaius phoeniceus, begging, brood parasitism, brown-headed cowbird, molothrus ater, offspring signalling, red-winged blackbird
2013
Sneaky queens in Melipona bees selectively detect and infiltrate queenless colonies
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: guarding, melipona scutellaris, reproductive parasitism, rfid, social parasitism, stingless bee
2013
Stress, the HPA axis, and nonhuman primate well-being: A review
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cortisol, environmental enrichment, hpa axis, nursery-rearing, social housing, stress
2013
The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood parasitism, chalk-browed mockingbird, egg puncture, frontline defence, host–parasite coevolution, mimus saturninus, molothrus bonariensis, nest defence, shiny cowbird
2013
What is the relationship between level of infection and ‘sickness behaviour’ in cattle?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, behaviour, cattle, gastrointestinal parasitism, health detection, ostertagia ostertagi
2013