Chimpanzees’(Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration

Authors: Sofia Forss, Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Christine Hrubesch, Claudio Tennie

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: chimpanzees, experience effect, housing facility, physical cognition, problem-solving skills

2020

Attitudes of veterinarians and veterinary students to recommendations on how to improve dog and cat welfare in veterinary practice

Authors: Christine Arhant, Nicole Hörschläger, Josef Troxler

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, cats, companion animals, dogs, low-stress handling, veterinary practice

2019

Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Authors: Aneesh P. H. Bose, Daniel Zayonc, Nikolaos Avrantinis, Natasha Ficzycz, Jonathan Fischer-Rush, Fiona T. Francis, Siobhan Gray, Faye Manning, Haley Robb, Coralee Schmidt, Christine Spice, Aari Umedaly, Jeff Warden, Isabelle M. Cote

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal welfare, Echinoderm, invertebrate, reintroduction, relocation, stress

2019

Friend or foe: reconciliation between males and females in wild chacma baboons

Authors: Christine E. Webb, Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, chacma baboon, male–female association, postconflict affiliation, reconciliation

2019

Adolescent oxytocin response to stress and its behavioral and endocrine correlates

Authors: Anka Bernhard, Cindy van der Merwe, Katharina Ackermann, Anne Martinelli, Inga D. Neumann, Christine M. Freitag

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: adolescents, Control-TSST, salivary cortisol, salivary oxytocin, TSST

2018

Behavioural and physiological responses of laying hens to automated monitoring equipment

Authors: Stephanie Buijs, Francesca Booth, Gemma Richards, Laura McGaughey, Christine J. Nicol, Joanne Edgar, John F. Tarlton

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, automated monitoring, domestic fowl, preening, thermography

2018

Opportunity for female mate choice improves reproductive outcomes in the conservation breeding program of the eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii)

Authors: Christine M. Hartnett, Marissa L. Parrott, Raoul A. Mulder, Graeme Coulson, Michael J. L. Magrath

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural compatibility, genetic compatibility, mate choice, mate preference, olfactory communication

2018

Face-based perception of emotions in dairy goats

Authors: Lucille G. A. Bellegarde, Marie J. Haskell, Christine Duvaux-Ponter, Alexander Weiss, Alain Boissy, Hans W. Erhard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ear postures, emotions, face, goats

2017

Provision of a resource package reduces feather pecking and improves ranging distribution on free-range layer farms

Authors: Isabelle C. Pettersson, Claire A. Weeks, Christine J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, enrichment, feather pecking, laying hens, range use, welfare

2017