Influence of handler relationships and experience on health parameters, glucocorticoid responses and behaviour of semi-captive Asian elephants
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: asian elephants, human-animal relationship, welfare
2021
Aquarium cichlid fish Tropheus Moorii flexibly adjust hierarchy when tank fish species composition changes: A pilot study
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: dyadic aggression, fish composition management, hierarchical adjustment, socio-environmental perturbation, winner-loser matrix
2020
Challenges, pitfalls and surprises: development and validation of a monoclonal antibody for enzyme immunoassay of the steroid 1 alpha -hydroxycorticosterone in elasmobranch species
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: 1α-hydroxycorticosterone, glucocorticoid, hplc, mineralocorticoid, stingray, stress
2018
What is play fighting and what is it good for?
Publication/Journal: Learning & Behavior
Keywords: reciprocity, tactics, targets
2017
Neural modulators of temperament: A multivariate approach to personality trait identification in the horse
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, behavior, docility, dopamine, equine, temperament
2016
A new method of walking rehabilitation using cognitive tasks in an adult chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) with a disability: a case study
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: animal welfare, body weight, captive chimpanzee, chimpanzee, cognitive task, discrimination, paraplegic patients, physical disability, recovery, tetraparesis, treadmill, walking rehabilitation, zoology
2016
Shedding ultraviolet light on welfare in laboratory rodents: suggestions for further research and refinement
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behavioral-response, housing, rodents, social, ultraviolet, vision, visual perception
2014
The adaptive function of hatching asynchrony: an experimental study in great tits
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood reduction hypothesis, great tit, hatching asynchrony, incubation, maternal effects, parus major
2013
Behavioral and physiological responses to subgroup size and number of people in howler monkeys inhabiting a forest fragment used for nature-based tourism
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: cortisol, forest fragmentation, primate conservation, stress, tourism, zoo
2013
Do mothers prefer helpers? Birth sex-ratio adjustment in captive callitrichines
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: callimico, callimico goeldii, fragile male hypothesis, golden lion tamarin, leontopithecus rosalia, local resource enhancement hypothesis, secondary sex ratio
2013