Exploring the behaviors and social preferences of a large, multigenerational herd of zoo-housed southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: ceratotherium, social behavior, welfare, zoo animal
2023
Fecal glucocorticoid analysis as a health monitoring tool for endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: african penguin, breeding, corticosterone, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, molt, noninvasive
2022
Zoo visitors affect sleep, displacement activities, and affiliative and aggressive behaviors in captive ebony langurs (Trachypithecus auratus)
Publication/Journal: acta ethologica
Keywords: behavior, captivity, displacement, langurs, primates, sleep, visitor studies
2020
Effects of experimental chronic traffic noise exposure on adult and nestling corticosterone levels, and nestling body condition in a free-living bird
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anthropogenic noise, chronic stress, feeding rate, insect bolus, nestling body condition, tree swallow
2018
Experimental anthropogenic noise impacts avian parental behaviour, nestling growth and nestling oxidative stress
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: breeding period, feeding rate, nestling physiology, traffic noise, tree swallow, vigilance
2018
Drivers and consequences of variation in individual social connectivity
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: diet quality, grant's gazelle, group living, parasite infection, social connectivity, social network analysis
2017
Pair housing of Macaques: A review of partner selection, introduction techniques, monitoring for compatibility, and methods for long-term maintenance of pairs
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: captive social management, pairing, socialization, welfare
2017
The primatologist as a behavioral engineer
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: abnormal behavior, applied behavior analysis, captive primate management, functional analysis
2017
Stress impairs new but not established relationships in seasonally social voles
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: affiliation, corticosterone, meadow vole, microtus pennsylvanicus, partner preference, seasonality, social behavior, stress
2016
Early rearing experience is associated with vasopressin immunoreactivity but not reactivity to an acute non-social stressor in the prairie vole
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: biparental care, corticotropin releasing hormone, forced swim test, natural variation, prairie vole, vasopressin
2015