Using faecal glucocorticoid metabolite analyses to elucidate stressors of African wild dogs Lycaon pictus from South Africa

Authors: Bruce Crossey, Christian Chimimba, Cole du Plessis, Grant Hall, Andre Ganswindt

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, body condition scoring, faecal glucocorticoid metabolite monitoring, managed metapopulation, stress, wildlife management

2020

Compassionate versus consequentialist conservation

Authors: Jordan O. Hampton, Bruce Warburton, Peter Sandoe

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: animal ethics, culling, harvesting, human–wildlife conflict, overabundance, wildlife management

2019

Efficacy and Animal Welfare Impacts of Novel Capture Methods for Two Species of Invasive Wild Mammals in New Zealand

Authors: A. David M. Latham, Ben Davidson, Bruce Warburton, Ivor Yockney, Jordan O. Hampton

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: bennett's wallaby, cervus-elaphus, darting, ground-based netting, net-gunning, Notamacropus rufogriseus, red deer, thiafentanil, tiletamine-zolazepam

2019

A comparison of fecal steroid metabolite concentrations between harem and bachelor stallions in a free-Ranging population of przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus przewalskii)

Authors: Maureen D'Souza-Anjo, Bruce W. Christensen, Kristin Brabender, Waltraut Zimmermann, Philip H. Kass, Franz Schwarzenberger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: epi-andosterone, estrogen, sociosexual hierarchy, testosterone

2017

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

The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis: A switch-controlled, condition-sensitive system in the regulation of life history strategies

Authors: Bruce J. Ellis

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: adolescence, developmental plasticity, developmental switches, gene–environment interactions, life history theory, parental investment and sexual selection, puberty

2013

Network Analysis of Social Changes in a Captive Chimpanzee Community Following the Successful Integration of Two Adult Groups

Authors: Anne Marijke Schel, Bruce Rawlings, Nicolas ClaidiÈRe, Claudia Wilke, J. E. N. Wathan, J. O. Richardson, Sophie Pearson, Elizabeth S. Herrelko, Andrew Whiten, Katie Slocombe

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: chimpanzee, integration, social network analysis, social relationships

2013

Short-term welfare implications of capture-mark-recapture trapping of medium-sized mammals: the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) as a case study

Authors: P. Cowan, G. Forrester, B. Warburton

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: activity patterns, animal welfare, mark-recapture, possum, trichosurus vulpecula, weight loss

2013

Drug-Resistant Human Staphylococcus Aureus in Sanctuary Apes Pose a Threat to Endangered Wild Ape Populations

Authors: Frieder Schaumburg, Lawrence Mugisha, Bruce Peck, Karsten Becker, Thomas R. Gillespie, Georg Peters, Fabian H. Leendertz

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: africa, great apes, reintroduction, staphylococcus aureus, transmission, wildlife

2012

Foraging paths through vegetation patches for beef cattle in semi-natural pastures

Authors: Robert J. Orr, Katherine N. Tozer, Bruce A. Griffith, Robert A. Champion, James E. Cook, Steven Mark Rutter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: community type, foraging path, gps, patch content, vegetation height

2012

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