Slow violence against animals: Unseen spectacles in racing and at zoos

Authors: Paula Arcari

Publication/Journal: Geoforum

Keywords:

2023

Motion Illusions as Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals: A Preliminary Investigation on Lions (Panthera leo)

Authors: Barbara Regaiolli, Angelo Rizzo, Giorgio Ottolini, Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini, Caterina Spiezio, Christian Agrillo

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, Rotating Snake illusion, visual illusions, zoo animals

2019

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) understand connectivity in the skewered grape tool task

Authors: Nicholas J. Mulcahy, Michèle N. Schubiger, T. Suddendorf

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: connectivity physical cognition, orangutans, skewer task, tools

2013

Semantic communication in vervet monkeys and other animals

Authors: Marta B. Manser

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal communication, human language, linguistics, representation, semantics

2013

Concept formation in American black bears, Ursus americanus

Authors: Jennifer Vonk, Stephanie E. Jett, Kelly W. Mosteller

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: black bear, cognition, concept formation, level of abstraction, ursus americanus

2012

Great tits in urban noise benefit from high frequencies in song detection and discrimination

Authors: N.U. Pohl, E. Leadbeater, H. Slabbekoorn, G.M. Klump, U. Langemann

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic communication, anthropogenic noise, birdsong, environmental noise, frequency shift, great tit, parus major, pitch, song detection, song discrimination

2012

Supplemental material for Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) understand connectivity in the skewered grape tool task

Authors: N. J. Mulcahy, M. N Schubiger, T. Suddendorf

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: connectivity physical cognition, orangutans, skewer task, tools

2012

Understanding how animals fight with Lloyd Morgan’s canon

Authors: Robert W. Elwood, Gareth Arnott

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: assessment, cognition, contest, decision-making, game theory

2012

Determining When Birds Perceive Correspondence Between Pictures and Objects: A Critique

Authors: Ronald Weisman, Marcia Spetch

Publication/Journal: Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews

Keywords: animals, anthropomorphism, avian perception, birds, correspondence between pictures and objects, natural science explanation, object perception, perceptual, picture perception, pigeons, visual category learning, visual cognition

2010