Bold Frogs or Shy Toads? How Did the COVID-19 Closure of Zoological Organisations Affect Amphibian Activity?

Authors: Jack Boultwood, Michelle O’Brien, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: amphibian behaviour, amphibian welfare, COVID-19, enclosure usage, evidence-based husbandry, visitor effect

2021

Do horses with poor welfare show ‘pessimistic’ cognitive biases?

Authors: S. Henry, C. Fureix, R. Rowberry, M. Bateson, M. Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Science of Nature

Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, back-pain, behavioral-disorders, cognitive judgement biases, enrichment, environmental, equus-caballus, horses, judgment bias, laboratory rats, management factors, multidisciplinary sciences, rattus-norvegicus, starlings sturnus-vulgaris

2017

Effects of visitor numbers on captive European red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and impacts on visitor experience

Authors: Eleanor E. Woolway, Anne E. Goodenough

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: activity budget, animal behavior, visitor effects, walk-through enclosure, zoo animals

2017

You know what? I’m happy. Cognitive bias is not related to personality but is induced by pair-housing in canaries (Serinus canaria)

Authors: M. Lalot, D. Ung, F. Peron, P. d'Ettorre, D. Bovet

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal emotion, animal welfare, anxiety, behavioral sciences, behavioral syndromes, biological, emotions, exploration, indicator, individual differences, male great tits, neophobia, personality, psychology, serinus canaria, social enrichment, starlings sturnus-vulgaris, welfare, zebra finches, zoology

2017

Two seconds is all it takes: European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) increase levels of circulating glucocorticoids after witnessing a brief raptor attack

Authors: Blake C. Jones, Adam D. Smith, Sara E. Bebus, Stephan J. Schoech

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: avian, corticosterone, depredation, hpa axis, stress response

2016

Behavioural assessment of pain in commercial turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) with foot pad dermatitis

Authors: A. Sinclair, C. W. Wyneken, T. Veldkamp, L. J. Vinco, P. M. Hocking

Publication/Journal: British Poultry Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, adult male turkeys, agriculture, analgesia, animals, dairy & animal science, glucocorticoids, growing turkeys, litter, moisture, rats, starlings sturnus-vulgaris, welfare

2015

Early life adversity increases foraging and information gathering in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris

Authors: Clare Andrews, Jérémie Viviani, Emily Egan, Thomas Bedford, Ben Brilot, Daniel Nettle, Melissa Bateson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: body mass regulation, contrafreeloading, developmental stress, early life adversity, european starling, food insecurity, foraging, sturnus vulgaris

2015

Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research -A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group

Authors: G. Fiorito, A. Affuso, J. Basil, A. Cole, P. de Girolamo, L. D'Angelo, L. Dickel, C. Gestal, F. Grasso, M. Kuba, F. Mark, D. Melillo, D. Osorio, K. Perkins, G. Ponte, N. Shashar, D. Smith, J. Smith, P. L. R. Andrews

Publication/Journal: Laboratory Animals

Keywords: 3rs, 63, aggregata-octopiana protista, animal welfare, anisakis-simplex nematoda, branchial heart, caribbean reef squid, cephalopods, complex, cuttlefish sepia-officinalis, directive 2010, eledone-cirrhosa mollusca, elevated seawater pco(2), eu, invertebrates, octopus octopus-vulgaris, sepioteuthis-sepioidea, squid, standard publication checklist, veterinary sciences, zoology

2015

Stress, captivity, and reproduction in a wild bird species

Authors: Molly J. Dickens, George E. Bentley

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: captivity, corticosterone, hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis, seasonality

2014

Ambient temperature influences birds’ decisions to eat toxic prey

Authors: M. Chatelain, C. G. Halpin, C. Rowe

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aposematism, decision-making, dietary cognition, mimicry, nutrient–toxin trade-off, state-dependent foraging

2013

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