Animal welfare complementing or conflicting with other sustainability issues
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cows, domestic cats, emissions, greenhouse gases, placebo, road traffic accidents
2019
Behavior and spatial use of enclosures by does and fawns of farmed fallow deer in postnatal period
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: bed-site selection, deer behavior, fawn, shelter, welfare
2019
Compassionate versus consequentialist conservation
Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology
Keywords: animal ethics, culling, harvesting, human–wildlife conflict, overabundance, wildlife management
2019
How our approaches to assessing benefits and harms can be improved
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, benefit, experimental validity, harm, laboratory research, meta-research
2019
Preparing for Life After Birth: Introducing the Concepts of Intrauterine and Extrauterine Sensory Entrainment in Mammalian Young
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
Fathers’ cortisol and testosterone in the days around infants’ births predict later paternal involvement
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: endocrine reactivity, fatherhood, hormones, newborns, paternal care, psychobiology
2018
Environmental enrichment of young adult rats (Rattus norvegicus) in different sensory modalities has long-lasting effects on their ability to learn via specific sensory channels
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: *animal learning, *environmental effects, auditory perception, cues, environmental enrichment, genetics, norway rats, olfactory perception, phenotypes, visual perception
2017
Adolescent voluntary exercise attenuated hippocampal innate immunity responses and depressive-like behaviors following maternal separation stress in male rats
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: depressive-like behaviors, hippocampus, mandatory exercise, maternal separation, toll-like receptors, voluntary exercise
2016
Associations among within-litter differences in early mothering received and later emotional behaviors, mothering, and cortical tryptophan hydroxylase-2 expression in female laboratory rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, maternal behavior, neophobia, tryptophan hydroxylase-2, within-litter
2016
Corticosterone levels and behavioral changes induced by simultaneous exposure to chronic social stress and enriched environments in NMRI male mice
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, corticosterone, environmental enrichment, learning, mice, social stress
2016