Assessing Allostatic Load in Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: allostatic load index, chronic stress, lemur catta, non-human primates
2021
Effects of Crowd Size, Composition, and Noise Level On Pool Use in a Mixed-Species Penguin Colony
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: behavior, decibel, visitor effects, welfare, zoo
2021
The effects of kennel size and exercise on the behaviour and stress physiology of individually-housed greyhounds
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: exercise, greyhounds, housing, space allowance, welfare
2018
Validation of scan sampling techniques for behavioural observations of pastured lambs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, lamb, pasture, scan sampling, sheep, validation
2017
Investigating temporary acyclicity in a captive group of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Relationship between management, adrenal activity and social factors
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, birth synchrony, central mechanisms, chemical communication, dominance status, endocrinology & metabolism, enzyme immunoassay, estrous synchrony, glucocorticoids, loxodonta-africana elephants, management, oestrous synchrony, ovarian activity, reproduction, reproductive cyclicity, temporary acyclicity, zoo elephants
2016
Lateralization of behavior in dairy cows in response to conspecifics and novel persons
Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
Keywords: dairy cow, dominance, hemispheric processing, visual lateralization
2015
Differences in Titi Monkey (Callicebus cupreus) Social Bonds Affect Arousal, Affiliation, and Response to Reward
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: attachment, callicebus, reward, social bond, sweet
2012
The effect of feeding enrichment methods on the behavior of captive Western lowland gorillas
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: environmental enrichment, foraging behavior, gorilla, resource defense
2012
Integrating microsatellite and pedigree analyses to facilitate the captive management of the endangered Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: founder relatedness, grus canadensis pulla, studbooks
2012
Morphometric sex determination of Milky and Painted storks in captivity
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: chd genes, logistic regression equation, molecular DNA sexing, morphometics, storks
2012