Manatees in Zoological Parks throughout the World: History, State, and Welfare

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behaviour, cognition, ecology, management, manatee, welfare, zoos

2023

Personality traits in captive Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in Brazil and perspectives for the release of individuals

Authors: Karen Lucchini, Helena G. P. do Val, Rebecca Umeed, Cristiano S. de Azevedo, Fernanda Löffler Niemeyer Attademo, Lucas I. dos S. Melo, Fábia de Oliveira Luna, Bruna Bezerra

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, boldness, conservation, rehabilitation, shyness, temperament

2023

Studying Antillean manatees’(Trichechus manatus manatus) temperament in zoological parks: exploration of boldness, sociality and reactivity to humans

Authors: Aviva Charles, Yann Henaut, Michel Saint Jalme, Baptiste Mulot, Alexis Lecu, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: conservation, manatees, novelty tests, personality questionnaire, temperament, welfare

2021

Consistent inter-individual differences in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) in Boldness-Shyness, Stress-Activity, and Exploration-Avoidance

Authors: Vedrana Šlipogor, Tina Gunhold-de Oliveira, Zoran Tadić, Jorg J. M. Massen, Thomas Bugnyar

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: animal personality, common marmosets, consistent inter-individual differences, group personality, non-human primates, solitary setting

2016

Personality matters: Consistency of inter-individual variation in shyness-boldness across non-breeding and pre-breeding season despite a fall in general shyness levels in farmed American mink (Neovison vison)

Authors: Christina Lehmkuhl Noer, Esther Kjær Needham, Ann-Sophie Wiese, Thorsten Johannes Skovbjerg Balsby, Torben Dabelsteen

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: american mink, animal personality, breeding season, intra-individual variation, motivation, shyness-boldness

2016

Unpredictability in food supply during early life influences growth and boldness in European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax

Authors: Ferrari Sébastien, Didier Leguay, Alain Vergnet, Marie-Odile Vidal, Béatrice Chatain, Marie-Laure Bégout

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavior, dicentrarchus labrax, environmental effect, exploration, food deprivation divergent strains, personality

2016

Applied personality assessment in domestic dogs: Limitations and caveats

Authors: Diana J. Rayment, Bert De Groef, Richard A. Peters, Linda C. Marston

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour test, coping style, dog, personality, shelter, shyness, temperament

2015

Differences in environmental enrichment generate contrasting behavioural syndromes in a basal spider lineage

Authors: Sarah E. Bengston, Jonathan N. Pruitt, Susan E. Riechert

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioural development, behavioural syndrome, brachypelma smithi, environmental effect, tarantula

2014

Coupling between stress coping style and time of emergence from spawning nests in salmonid fishes: Evidence from selected rainbow trout strains (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Authors: Madelene Åberg Andersson, Uniza Wahid Khan, Øyvind Øverli, Hans Magnus Gjøen, Erik Höglund

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: aquaculture, stress coping style, time of emergence

2013

Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution

Authors: Denis Réale, Simon M. Reader, Daniel Sol, Peter T. McDougall, Niels J. Dingemanse

Publication/Journal: Biological Reviews

Keywords: aggressiveness, behavioural syndromes, context-specificity, coping styles, exploration, individual differences, personality, shyness-boldness, sociability, temperament

2007

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