Specifically unspecific–Simple devices as feasible and effective enrichment for small mammals

Authors: M Göbel, S Kaiser, H Richter, P Wagner, G Wehrenberg

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal husbandry, animal welfare, behavioral enrichment, Multi-species approach, stereotypy, zoo

2024

The behavioral response of the crab-eating fox to olfactory enrichment

Authors: MP Figueira, FFR Silva, A Ribeiro, IO Silva, V Boere

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, canids, Cerdocyon thous, environmental enrichment, olfactory stimulus

2021

The stress of being alone: Removal from the colony, but not social subordination, increases fecal cortisol metabolite levels in eusocial naked mole-rats

Authors: Phoebe D Edwards, Skyler J Mooney, Curtis O Bosson, Ilapreet Toor, Rupert Palme, Melissa M Holmes, Rudy Boonstra

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: enzyme immunoassay, eusocial, fecal cortisol metabolites, isolation stress, naked mole-rat, social rank, social status, social stress

2020

Anthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behaviour in hermit crabs

Authors: Svenja Tidau, Mark Briffa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, environmental change, grouping preference, hermit crabs, intraspecific interaction, sensory environment

2019

Behavioral responses to emotional challenges in female rats living in a seminatural environment: The role of estrogen receptors

Authors: Olivia Le Moëne, Anders Ågmo

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: co-occurrence analysis, diarylpropionitrile, fear, positive emotion, propylpyrazoletriol, seminatural environment, sexual behavior, social behavior

2018

Investigation of social, affective, and locomotor behavior of adolescent Brattleboro rats reveals a link between vasopressin’s actions on arousal and social behavior

Authors: Kelcie C. Schatz, Robert F. Kyne, Stephanie L. Parmeter, Matthew J. Paul

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: adolescence, Anxiety-like behavior, arousal, Brattleboro rat, social development, vasopressin

2018

Behaviour, stress and welfare of Sprague Dawley rats (Rattus norvegicus) on diet board feeding for 24 months

Authors: Sakari Laaksonen, Timo Nevalainen, Jukka Ketola, Jann Hau, Pentti Nieminen, Kristiina Haasio, Iiris Kasanen, Hanna-Marja Voipio

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, diet board, rat, refinement, welfare

2017

CATOS (Computer Aided Training/Observing System): Automating animal observation and training

Authors: J. Oh, W. T. Fitch

Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods

Keywords: animal welfare, apparatus, automated animal training, automatic, cognitive performance, experimental, gamification, mathematical, open-source system, psychology, screen, system

2017

Environmental enrichment of young adult rats (Rattus norvegicus) in different sensory modalities has long-lasting effects on their ability to learn via specific sensory channels

Authors: Vassilissa Dolivo, Michael Taborsky

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *animal learning, *environmental effects, auditory perception, cues, environmental enrichment, genetics, norway rats, olfactory perception, phenotypes, visual perception

2017

Improving quality of science through better animal welfare: the NC3Rs strategy

Authors: M. J. Prescott, K. Lidster

Publication/Journal: Lab Animal

Keywords: *cognitive bias, emotion, facial expressions, impact, models, mouse, rat grimace scale, refinement, responses, system, veterinary sciences

2017

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