Cognitive Group Testing Promotes Affiliative Behaviors in Dolphins

Authors: Eszter Mátrai, Suzanne M Gendron, Michael Boos, Ákos Pogány

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive challenge, environmental enrichment, indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, welfare indicators

2022

Cognitive enrichment device provides evidence for intersexual differences in collaborative actions in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)

Authors: Eszter Matrai, Shaw Ting Kwok, Michael Boos, Ákos Pogány

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: bottlenose dolphin, cognitive enrichment, collaboration, cooperation, intersexual differences, problem solving, sociality

2021

Swimming features in captive odontocetes: Indicative of animals’ emotional state?

Authors: Agathe Serres, Yujiang Hao, Ding Wang

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: bottlenose dolphin, Circular swimming, finless porpoise, stress, synchronous swimming, welfare

2020

Bottlenose dolphins engaging in more social affiliative behaviour judge ambiguous cues more optimistically

Authors: I. L. K. Clegg, H. G. Rodel, F. Delfour

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affiliative behavior, animal emotion, animal welfare, anticipatory, behavior, behavioral sciences, bias, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive, judgment bias, mood, neurosciences, optimism, social behavior, state, stress, synchronous swimming, tursiops-truncatus, welfare

2017

Nocturnal behavior of orphaned Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) calves in Sri Lanka

Authors: Helena Stokes, Vijitha Perera, Nilmini Jayasena, Ayona Silva-Fletcher

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, elephas maximus, nocturnal behavior, rehabilitation, resting behavior

2017

Effects of feeding management and group composition on agonistic behaviour of group-housed horses

Authors: Joan-Bryce Burla, Anic Ostertag, Antonia Patt, Iris Bachmann, Edna Hillmann

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, equine, feeding system, forage availability, individual distance, locomotor-activity

2016

Degree of synchrony based on individual observations underlines the importance of concurrent access to enrichment materials in finishing pigs

Authors: Bettina Zwicker, Roland Weber, Beat Wechsler, Lorenz Gygax

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: enrichment object, exploratory behaviour, feeding regime, synchronous

2015

The adaptive function of hatching asynchrony: an experimental study in great tits

Authors: Katarzyna Anna Podlas, Heinz Richner

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood reduction hypothesis, great tit, hatching asynchrony, incubation, maternal effects, parus major

2013

Hatching asynchrony and offspring sex influence the subsequent exploratory behaviour of zebra finches

Authors: Mark C. Mainwaring, Ian R. Hartley

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: exploration, hatching asynchrony, parental investment, sex difference, taeniopygia guttata, zebra finch

2013