Investigating food preference in zoo‐housed meerkats
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: food preference, group-housed, meerkat, zoo welfare
2021
Investigating food preference in zoo‐housed meerkats
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: meerkat, preference
2021
Enrichment reduces stereotypical behaviors and improves foraging development in rehabilitating Eastern Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina richardii)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: applied welfare, behavioral management, conservation, foraging, pinniped, wildlife rehabilitation
2019
Oxytocin and the warm outer glow: Thermoregulatory deficits cause huddling abnormalities in oxytocin-deficient mouse pups
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: behavioral phenotyping, brown adipose tissue, huddling, mice, oxytocin
2018
Investigation of techniques to measure cortisol and testosterone concentrations in coyote hair
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: canis latrans, cortisol, hair, mammals, testosterone
2017
Antagonism of V1b receptors promotes maternal motivation to retrieve pups in the MPOA and impairs pup-directed behavior during maternal defense in the mpBNST of lactating rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: arginine-vasopressin, maternal aggression, maternal care, maternal defense test, pup retrieval test, ssr149415, v1a receptor, v1b receptor
2016
Are age and sex differences in brain oxytocin receptors related to maternal and infanticidal behavior in naïve mice?
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: development, hypothalamus, infanticidal behavior, mouse, olfaction, oxytocin receptor, parental behavior
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
Influence of morning maternal care on the behavioural responses of 8-week-old Beagle puppies to new environmental and social stimuli
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, dog, licking, maternal care, nursing, puppy
2016
Kinship, maternal effects, and management: Juvenile mortality and survival in captive African painted dogs, Lycaon pictus
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: african wild dog, canid, ex situ breeding, juvenile mortality, social carnivore
2016