Activity budgets, responses to disturbance and novel behaviours in captive mountain chicken frogs Leptodactylus fallax

Authors: Eve Mannings, Francesca Servini, Benjamin Tapley, Christopher J Michaels

Publication/Journal: Herpetological Journal

Keywords: amphibians, behaviour, disturbance, mSPI, welfare, zoo

2023

Proximity and animal welfare in the context of tourist interactions with habituated dolphins

Publication/Journal: Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Keywords: animal ethics, bottle-nosed dolphins, choice experiments, choice modelling, conceptual-framework, conservation, ecotourism, green & sustainable science & technology, hospitality, human/dolphin, interaction, leisure, management, national-park, sport &, sustainability, tourism, tursiops-truncatus, western-australia, wildlife

2017

Early detection of health and welfare compromises through automated detection of behavioural changes in pigs

Authors: S. G. Matthews, A. L. Miller, J. Clapp, T. Plotz, I. Kyriazakis

Publication/Journal: Veterinary Journal

Keywords: behavioural changes, early detection, pigs, welfare

2016

The stress response is attenuated during inclement weather in parental, but not in pre-parental, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) breeding in the Low Arctic

Authors: Jesse S. Krause, Jonathan H. Pérez, Helen E. Chmura, Simone L. Meddle, Kathleen E. Hunt, Laura Gough, Natalie Boelman, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, hpa axis, life history trade-offs, parental care, snowstorms, stress

2016

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

Housing and management factors associated with indicators of dairy cattle welfare

Authors: M. de Vries, E. A. M. Bokkers, C. G. van Reenen, B. Engel, G. van Schaik, T. Dijkstra, I. J. M. de Boer

Publication/Journal: Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Keywords: animal welfare, dairy cattle, environment, housing, management, risk factor

2015

Hit or miss: branch structure affects perch choice, behaviour, distance and accuracy of brown tree snakes bridging gaps

Authors: Bruce C. Jayne, Andrew M. Lehmkuhl, Michael A. Riley

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: arboreal, boiga irregularis, fitts's law, habitat structure, locomotion, performance

2014

Assessment of landscape-scale distribution of sympatric great apes in African rainforests: Concurrent use of nest and camera-trap surveys

Authors: Yoshihiro Nakashima, Yuji Iwata, Chieko Ando, Chimene Nze Nkoguee, Eiji Inoue, Etienne-Francois Okoue Akomo, Philippe Mbehang Nguema, Thierry Diop Bineni, Ludovic Ngok Banak, Yuji Takenoshita, Alfred Ngomanda, Juichi Yamagiwa

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: camera trap, distance sampling, gabon, nest, sympatric apes

2013

The comparative biology of environmental stress: behavioural endocrinology and variation in ability to cope with novel, changing environments

Authors: John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: allostasis, corticosteroid, glucocorticoid receptor, perturbation, reactive scope, steroid metabolizing enzyme, stress

2013

Individual variation in testosterone and parental care in a female songbird; The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)

Authors: Kristal E. Cain, Ellen D. Ketterson

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: dark-eyed junco (junco hyemalis), endogenous steroids, gonadotropin releasing hormone (gnrh), life history tradeoffs, maternal care, testosterone, yolk hormones

2013

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