Chopped and dispersed food enhances foraging and reduces stress-related behaviours in captive white-naped mangabeys (Cercocebus lunulatus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: food distribution, food size, positive welfare indicators, primates, self-directed behaviours, zoo welfare
2021
Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, captive breeding, parrots, phylogenetic comparative methods, stress
2021
Anthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behaviour in hermit crabs
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: anthropogenic noise, environmental change, grouping preference, hermit crabs, intraspecific interaction, sensory environment
2019
Comparative well-being of horses kept under total or partial confinement prior to employment for mounted patrols
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, heart rate variability, horse, police, stall, stress
2016
A comparison of nocturnal primate behavior in exhibits illuminated with red and blue light
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity levels, circadian disruption, salivary melatonin, zoo lighting design
2016
Cumulative stress in research animals: Telomere attrition as a biomarker in a welfare context?
Publication/Journal: Bioessays
Keywords: age, animal welfare, anxiety disorders, biochemistry & molecular biology, biological age, biology, biomarker, body-mass, chronic pain, cortisol, cumulative experience, cumulative severity, dynamics, length, life-span, oxidative stress, stress, telomere dynamics
2016
Elevated corticosterone during egg production elicits increased maternal investment and promotes nestling growth in a wild songbird
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: begging, egg, glucocorticoid, house wren, life history, maternal effect
2016
King Penguins in Zoos: Relating Breeding Success to Husbandry Practices
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: breeding, king penguins, zoos
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
Optimal-rearing density for head-starting green turtles (Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captivity, digestive enzyme, ex situ conservation, feces, health
2016