Internal and external factors affect pair mate proximity in captive coyotes, Canis latrans
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: coyote, hormone, pair-bonding, progesterone, proximity, synchrony
2024
Cognitive Group Testing Promotes Affiliative Behaviors in Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive challenge, environmental enrichment, indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, welfare indicators
2022
Enrichment with classical music enhances affiliative behaviours in bottlenose dolphin
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: bottlenose dolphin, captive, cetacean, enrichment, social behavior, zoo
2022
Cognitive enrichment device provides evidence for intersexual differences in collaborative actions in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood reduction hypothesis, great tit, hatching asynchrony, incubation, maternal effects, parus major
2013