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
Social Interactions in Zoo-Housed Elephants: Factors Affecting Social Relationships
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: social behaviour, social relationships, welfare, zoo elephants
2019
Incorporating stakeholder perspectives into the assessment and provision of captive elephant welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, elephant, stakeholder opinion, welfare assessment, zoo
2017
Long term vs. short term impact of founder relatedness on gene diversity and inbreeding within the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) of the red panda (Ailurus f. fulgens)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: breeding programs, eep, genetic diversity, genetic management, inbreeding, red panda
2017
Using behavioral observations and genetic markers to characterize the flexible reproductive system in an ex situ population of carmine bee-eaters (Merops n. nubicus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: behaviour, colony, parentage, population, relatedness, reproduction
2017
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
Initial founders of captive populations are genetically representative of natural populations in critically endangered dusky gopher frogs, Lithobates sevosus
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive population management, ex situ, genetic variation, relatedness
2016
Male-male affiliation and cooperation characterize the social behavior of the large-bodied pitheciids, Chiropotes and Cacajao: A review
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: affiliation, cooperation, dispersal, kinship, large groups
2016
Chromosomal variation and perinatal mortality in San Diego zoo Soemmerring’s gazelles
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: antelopes, centric fusions, microsatellites, mitochondrial haplotypes
2015
Comparison of the genetic variation of captive ring-tailed lemurs with a wild population in Madagascar
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captivity, conservation, genetic variability, lemur catta, microsatellites, mtdna sequences
2015