Animal welfare research is fascinating, ethical, and useful—but how can it be more rigorous?
Publication/Journal: BMC Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, evidence-based animal care, welfare science
2023
Cognitive enrichment device provides evidence for intersexual differences in collaborative actions in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)
Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition
Keywords: bottlenose dolphin, cognitive enrichment, collaboration, cooperation, intersexual differences, problem solving, sociality
2021
Human speech reduces pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) feeding and resting at a Peruvian tourist site, with louder volumes decreasing visibility
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: acoustic disturbance, ecotourism, flight initiation, pygmy marmoset
2019
Investigation of social, affective, and locomotor behavior of adolescent Brattleboro rats reveals a link between vasopressin’s actions on arousal and social behavior
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: adolescence, Anxiety-like behavior, arousal, Brattleboro rat, social development, vasopressin
2018
Positioning Animal Welfare in the One Health Concept through Evaluation of an Animal Welfare Center in Skopje, Macedonia
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, center, evaluation, impact stakeholders, one health, transdisciplinarity
2018
Dutch Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Broiler Welfare
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: broiler welfare, choice experiment, the Netherlands, willingness-to-pay
2017
Captive-breeding of captive and wild-reared Gunnison sage-grouse
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive flock, centrocercus minimus, conservation-reliant, founder flock
2016
Creating Public Awareness of How Goats Are Reared and Milk Produced May Affect Consumer Acceptability
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: consumer attitudes, goats, milk production
2016
Determining Connections between the Daily Lives of Zoo Elephants and Their Welfare: An Epidemiological Approach
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: elephants, epidemiology, welfare, zoos
2016
Dominance relationships among siamang males living in multimale groups
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: flexible social system, intrasexual competition, mating success, monogamy, polyandry, reproductive skew
2016