Environmentally enriching American mink (Neovison vison) increases lymphoid organ weight and skeletal symmetry, and reveals differences between two sub-types of stereotypic behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, animal welfare, carnivores, corticosteroids, enrichment, fluctuating asymmetry, immune system, stereotypic behaviour
2016
Perseveration in a guessing task by laying hens selected for high or low levels of feather pecking does not support classification of feather pecking as a stereotypy
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: feather pecking, genetic selection, guessing task, laying hens, recurrent perseveration, stereotyped behaviour
2015
Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural disinhibition, early life stress, european starling, impulsivity, maternal deprivation, perseveration, sturnus vulgaris
2013
Individual differences in stereotypic behaviour predict individual differences in the nature and degree of enrichment use in caged American mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, environmental enrichment, establishment, individual variation, motivation, stereotypic behaviour
2012
Frustration and perseveration in stereotypic captive animals: Is a taste of enrichment worse than none at all?
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: enrichment, frustration, negative contrast, perseveration, reward, stereotypic behavior, stereotypic behaviour, stress, welfare
2010
How the great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed reward contingency task II: Transfer to new quantities, long-term retention, and the impact of quantity ratios
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: inhibition, perseveration, quantity discrimination, relative numerousness, reversal learning
2008
Maternal deprivation and the development of stereotypic behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: maternal deprivation, perseveration, stereotypic behavior, stereotypic behaviours, weaning age, welfare
2008
Effects of pregnancy on spatial cognition in female Hooded Long-Evans rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: cognition, hippocampus, hormone, pregnancy, rat, spatial memory, water maze
2006
Stereotypies and Other Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors: Potential Impact on Validity, Reliability, and Replicability of Scientific Outcomes
Publication/Journal: Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Journal
Keywords: abnormal behavior, abnormal behaviour, animal welfare, executive system, obsessive-compulsive, perseveration, stereotypy
2005
Stereotypy and perseverative responding in caged bears: further data and analyses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: asiatic black bear, malayan sun bear, perseveration, persistence, stereotypy, striatal dysfunction
2005