Catcalls: exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: *Voice/physiology, animals, caregivers, Familiar human, felid, felidae, humans, physiology, pilot projects, psychology, rearing history, recognition, Vocal discrimination
2024
Genetic and environmental parameters for behavioural responses towards humans in farmed ostriches
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, heritability, human-animal relationship, ostrich
2023
Extensive human presence and regular gentle handling improve growth, survival and immune competence in ostrich chicks
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, human-animal interactions, immunity, performance, struthio camelus
2020
Cardiac activity and salivary cortisol concentration of leisure horses in response to the presence of an audience in the arena
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
2019
Gentle interactions decrease the fear of humans in dairy heifers independently of early experience of stroking
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: avoidance distance, calves, cattle, gentle interactions, human-animal relationship, stroking
2016
An investigation of the auditory perception of western lowland gorillas in an enrichment study
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: anxiety, auditory perception, gorillas, pitch, tempo, welfare
2016
Faking it: deliberately altered voice pitch and vocal attractiveness
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: functional honesty, honest signal, vocal attractiveness, vocal dominance, voice pitch
2013
Great tits in urban noise benefit from high frequencies in song detection and discrimination
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: acoustic communication, anthropogenic noise, birdsong, environmental noise, frequency shift, great tit, parus major, pitch, song detection, song discrimination
2012
Piglets’ weaning behavioural response is influenced by quality of human–animal interactions during suckling
Publication/Journal: animal
Keywords: aversive, behavioural time budget, distress, fear, welfare
2011
Understanding of human communicative motives in domestic dogs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: communicative motive, competition, cooperation, domestic dog, pointing gesture
2011