Do horses with poor welfare show ‘pessimistic’ cognitive biases?
Publication/Journal: Science of Nature
Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, back-pain, behavioral-disorders, cognitive judgement biases, enrichment, environmental, equus-caballus, horses, judgment bias, laboratory rats, management factors, multidisciplinary sciences, rattus-norvegicus, starlings sturnus-vulgaris
2017
Sex influences rat personality more than geographical origin
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, animal personality, anxiousness, rattus-norvegicus, tameness
2011
Environmental enrichment enhances spatial cognition in rats by reducing thigmotaxis (wall hugging) during testing
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: albino rat, anxiety, environmental enrichment, morris water-maze, rattus-norvegicus, spatial cognition, thigmotaxis
2009
Effectiveness of familiar kin and unfamiliar nonkin demonstrator rats in altering food choices of their observers
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: familiarity, food choice, kinship, norway rat, rattus-norvegicus, social learning
2008
Sex differences, or not, in spatial cognition in albino rats: acute stress is the key
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: albino rat, morris water-maze, rattus-norvegicus, sex differences, spatial cognition, stress, thigmotaxis
2008
A spatial judgement task to determine background emotional state in laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, cognition, emotion, laboratory rat, rattus-norvegicus
2008
Auditory Categorization of Complex Sounds by Rats (Rattus norvegicus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: auditory categorization, mammals, rat, rattus-norvegicus
2005
Enrichment of laboratory caging for rats- a review
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, laboratory, rats, rattus-norvegicus, review
2004
Housing and Welfare in Laboratory Rats: The Welfare Implications of Social Isolation and Social Contact Among Females
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, female, isolation, pathophysiology, rat, rattus-norvegicus, time-budget
1998