Play in Elephants: Wellbeing, Welfare or Distraction?
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: captive wellbeing, comparative play rates, early development, elephant play
2020
Wild boar behaviour during live-trap capture in a corral-style trap: implications for animal welfare
Publication/Journal: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Keywords: 3R, ethogram, health, hunting, management, refinement, stress, sus scrofa, trapping, wildlife
2020
Effects of parity and litter size on cortisol measures in commercially housed sows and their offspring
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: birth weight, hair cortisol, pigs, salivary cortisol, stress
2019
Enrichment reduces stereotypical behaviors and improves foraging development in rehabilitating Eastern Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina richardii)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: applied welfare, behavioral management, conservation, foraging, pinniped, wildlife rehabilitation
2019
Implications of human-animal interactions on mother-calf interactions in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dyad
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: behavior, cetacean, human welfare, human-animal relationship, keeper, management, positive reinforcement, trainer, welfare
2019
Playful pigs: Evidence of consistency and change in play depending on litter and developmental stage
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: growth, litter differences, piglet, play, weaning
2018
Acute social stress-induced immunomodulation in pigs high and low responders to ACTH
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: catecholamines, cortisol, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, neuroimmunomodulation, pig, stress
2017
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) sleep study – long-term quantitative research at Dublin Zoo
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: asian elephant, husbandry, sleep, zoo
2017
The backtest in pigs revisited—Inter-situational behaviour and animal classification
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: backtest, behaviour tests, classification, coping, personality, pigs
2017
Determination of swine euthanasia criteria and analysis of barriers to euthanasia in the United States using expert opinion
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, decision-making, education, euthanasia, swine, timeliness
2017