A Quantitative Approach for Using Anticipatory Behavior as a Graded Welfare Assessment
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: appetitive behavior, pinniped, sea lion, zoo animal
2022
Supporting Zoo Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare and Herd Dynamics with a More Complex and Expanded Habitat
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: adrenal activity, behavior, elephant, feeding predictability, glucocorticoids, gps, habitat evaluation, locomotion, sociality, welfare
2021
Chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) behavioral responses to a visual signal preceding handling
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: ambassador, contact animals, gloves, habituate, predictable
2020
Change in stingray behaviour and social networks in response to the scheduling of husbandry events
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: aggression, positive reinforcement training, predictability, social network analysis, stingray, welfare
2019
A Framework to Assess the Impact of New Animal Management Technologies on Welfare: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, cattle, cognition, cognitive activation theory of stress, livestock, sheep, virtual fencing
2018
Higher levels of submissive behaviors at the onset of the pairing process of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are associated with lower risk of wounding following introduction
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: social introductions, social wounding, submissive behaviors
2017
The influence of demographic variation on social network stability in wild vervet monkeys
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: centrality, dynamics of relationships, group composition variation, social network, vervet monkeys
2017
Proximity and animal welfare in the context of tourist interactions with habituated dolphins
Publication/Journal: Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Keywords: animal ethics, bottle-nosed dolphins, choice experiments, choice modelling, conceptual-framework, conservation, ecotourism, green & sustainable science & technology, hospitality, human/dolphin, interaction, leisure, management, national-park, sport &, sustainability, tourism, tursiops-truncatus, western-australia, wildlife
2017
Effect of predictability on the stress response to chasing in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: allostasis, conditioning, habituation, predictability, salmon, stress
2016
Unpredictability in food supply during early life influences growth and boldness in European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behavior, dicentrarchus labrax, environmental effect, exploration, food deprivation divergent strains, personality
2016