Allostatic Load Indices With Cholesterol and Triglycerides Predict Disease and Mortality Risk in Zoo-Housed Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Authors: Ashley N Edes, Katie L Edwards, Barbara A Wolfe, Janine L Brown, Douglas E Crews

Publication/Journal: Biomarker Insights

Keywords: animal welfare, cardiac disease, chronic conditions, lipid markers, nonhuman primates

2020

Music for Monkeys: Building Methods to Design with White-Faced Sakis for Animal-Driven Audio Enrichment Devices

Authors: Roosa Piitulainen, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal technology, animal-computer-interaction, audio enrichment, white-faced saki

2020

Consequences Matter: Compassion in Conservation Means Caring for Individuals, Populations and Species

Authors: Paul J. Johnson, Vanessa M. Adams, Doug P. Armstrong, Sandra E. Baker, Duan Biggs, Luigi Boitani, Alayne Cotterill, Emma Dale, Holly O'Donnell, David J. T. Douglas, Egil Droge, John G. Ewen, Ruth E. Feber, Piero Genovesi, Clive Hambler, Bart J. Harmsen, Lauren A. Harrington, Amy Hinks, Joelene Hughes, Lydia Katsis, Andrew Loveridge, Axel Moehrenschlager, Christopher O'Kane, Meshach Pierre, Steve Redpath, Lovemore Sibanda, Pritpal Soorae, Mark Stanley Price, Peter Tyrrell, Alexandra Zimmermann, Amy Dickman

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: compassion, consequentialism, ethics, virtue

2019

Rearing history and allostatic load in adult western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in human care

Authors: Ashley N. Edes, Barbara A. Wolfe, Douglas E. Crews

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: allostasis, apes, captivity, stress

2016

Acoustic noise reduces foraging success in two sympatric fish species via different mechanisms

Authors: Irene K. Voellmy, Julia Purser, Douglas Flynn, Philippa Kennedy, Stephen D. Simpson, Andrew N. Radford

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, environmental change, fish behaviour, gasterosteus aculeatus, phoxinus phoxinus, pollution, predation risk, species differences, starvation risk

2014

Evaluating the costs of a sexually selected weapon: big horns at a small price

Authors: Erin L. McCullough, Douglas J. Emlen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cost, horn, male–male competition, rhinoceros beetle, sexual selection, trypoxylus dichotomus

2013

Inversion of left–right asymmetry alters performance of Xenopus tadpoles in nonlateralized cognitive tasks

Authors: Douglas J. Blackiston, Michael Levin

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: laterality, learning, left–right asymmetry, memory, xenopus

2013

Differences induced by incubation temperature, versus androgen manipulation, in male leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius)

Authors: Victoria Huang, David Crews

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: androgens, castration, lizard, sociosexual behavior, temperature-dependent sex determination

2012

Novelty-evoked activity in open field predicts susceptibility to helpless behavior

Authors: Eimeira Padilla, Jason Shumake, Douglas W. Barrett, Genevieve Holmes, Eva C. Sheridan, F. Gonzalez-Lima

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: heart rate, individual differences, inescapable stress, learned helplessness, novelty, open-field test

2010

Where sociality and relatedness diverge: the genetic basis for hierarchical social organization in African elephants

Authors: G. Wittemyer, J. B. A. Okello, H. B. Rasmussen, P. Arctander, S. Nyakaana, I. Douglas-Hamilton, H. R. Siegismund

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: kin selection, loxodonta africana, population genetics, social behavior, social behaviour

2009

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