Does Handling for Public Talks in Zoos Affect the Behaviour of Captive Mexican Red-Kneed Spiders Brachypelma hamorii?

Authors: Charlotte Gresham, Fiona Mathews, Amanda Ferguson, Jamie Mitchell, Lisa Clifforde, Dave Clarke, Lewis J. Rowden

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: activity, enclosure use, handling, invertebrate, spiders, welfare

2022

The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Authors: Claudio Carere, Jennifer A Mather

Publication/Journal: The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Keywords: animal personality, cephalopods, cognition, crustaceans, entomology, ethics, insects, invertebrates, model invertebrates, mollusks, nocireception, pain, research ethics, sentience, suffering

2019

Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators?

Authors: Mu-Yun Wang, Thomas C. Ings, Michael J. Proulx, Lars Chittka

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: attention, bombus terrestris, bumblebee, foraging, predator avoidance, predator crypsis, visual search

2013

The combined behavioural tendencies of predator and prey mediate the outcome of their interaction

Authors: Nicholas DiRienzo, Jonathan N. Pruitt, Ann V. Hedrick

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal personality, behavioural syndrome, black widow spider, field cricket, gryllus integer, intraspecific variation, latrodectus hesperus, predator–prey interactions, trade-off

2013

Comparison of Isoflurane and Carbon Dioxide Anesthesia in Chilean Rose Tarantulas (Grammostola rosea)

Authors: Daniel S. Dombrowski, Ryan S. De Voe, Gregory A. Lewbart

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: anesthesia, carbon dioxide, chilean rose tarantula, grammostola rosea, isoflurane, spider

2013

The influence of siblings on body condition in a social spider: is prey sharing cooperation or competition?

Authors: Eric C. Yip, Linda S. Rayor

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: body condition, competition, cooperation, foraging, group living, prey sharing, producer–scrounger, sibling, sociality, spider

2013

Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality

Authors: Jonathan N. Pruitt, Lena Grinsted, Virginia Settepani

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: araneae, cooperative foraging, emergent behaviour, social group, spider, stegodyphus sarasinorum, temperament

2013

Microhabitat evaluation and utilization by a foraging predator

Authors: Kelton D. Welch, Kenneth F. Haynes, James D. Harwood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: ambush predator, decision-making, flexible foraging, mermessus fradeorum, olfactory cue, site selection, spider web

2013

Ageing alters spider orb-web construction

Authors: M. Anotaux, J. Marchal, N. Châline, L. Desquilbet, R. Leborgne, C. Gilbert, A. Pasquet

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: ageing, orb-web, spider, web anomaly, web investment, zygiella-x-notata

2012