Appetitive Search Behaviors and Stereotypies in Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus)
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: appetitive behavior, polar bears, response-independent schedules, stereotypies, welfare, zoos
2020
Evaluation of the Impact of Behavioral Opportunities on Four Zoo-Housed Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, corticosterone, environmental enrichment, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, goal-based enrichment, nocturnal species
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
Growth rates of juvenile Boa constrictor under two feeding regimes
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: boidae, diet, evidence‐based husbandry, snake
2019
How does feeding regime affect behaviour and activity in captive African lions (Panthera leo)?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: feeding regime, felids, hunger, husbadry, satiation
2019
A Zoo Animal’s Neighbourhood: How Conspecific Neighbours Impact Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, conspecific neighbours, physiology, welfare monitoring, zoo animals
2019
Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light
2017
Simple but temporally unpredictable puzzles are cognitive enrichment
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: animal welfare, anticipatory behavior, foraging enrichment, reward schedules
2017
Effects of experimentally necessary changes in husbandry on olfactory memory: Chronic food restriction and social isolation
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: food restriction, memory, olfactory, social isolation
2016
Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony adversely affects late-hatched hihi nestlings, but not life beyond the nest
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood hierarchies, carotenoids, hatching asynchrony, maternal effects, notiomystis cincta
2016