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
Behavioral responses to emotional challenges in female rats living in a seminatural environment: The role of estrogen receptors
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: co-occurrence analysis, diarylpropionitrile, fear, positive emotion, propylpyrazoletriol, seminatural environment, sexual behavior, social behavior
2018
The ins and outs of the litter box: A detailed ethogram of cat elimination behavior in two contrasting environments
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cat, defecation, elimination behavior, litter box, urination, wellbeing
2017
Towards a taxonomy of stereotypic behaviours in the American mink (Neovison vison), a model Carnivore: Homogeneous or heterogeneous?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: abnormal repetitive behaviour, american mink, animal welfare, behavioural sequence, ethogram, stereotypic behaviour
2017
Analysis of the distal gut bacterial community by 454-pyrosequencing in captive giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: 16s rrna, giraffe, gut, microbiome, pyrosequencing
2016
Behavioural responses of broiler chickens during low atmospheric pressure stunning
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, humane slaughter, hypobaric hypoxia, loss of posture, low atmosphere pressure stunning
2016
Behavioural, brain and cardiac responses to hypobaric hypoxia in broiler chickens
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, hypobaric hypoxia, low atmosphere pressure stunning
2016
Effects of analgesic intervention on behavioural responses to Low Atmospheric Pressure Stunning
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, broiler, humane slaughter, hypobaric hypoxia, low atmosphere pressure stunning, pain
2016
The efficacy of sex-chromosomal markers in studies of Cercopithecus hybridization: Discovery of a captive hybrid and applications in wild populations
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: guenons, single nucleotide polymorphisms, tspy, x-chromosome, xq13.3, y-chromosome
2016
A new marker based on the avian spindlin gene that is able to sex most birds, including species problematic to sex with CHD markers
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: aves, bird, data validation, sex typing, spindlin gene, w and z chromosomes
2016