Increasing browse and social complexity can improve zoo elephant welfare
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, diet, ex situ, loxodonta africana, management, social
2020
Preference assessments as a tool to evaluate environmental enrichment
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, free operant, paired-choice, preference assessment
2020
The Relevance of Operant Behavior in Conceptualizing the Psychological Well-Being of Captive Animals
Publication/Journal: Perspectives on Behavior Science
Keywords: animal welfare, operant behavior
2020
Integrating trans-abdominal ultrasonography with fecal steroid metabolite monitoring to accurately diagnose pregnancy and predict the timing of parturition in the red panda (Ailurus fulgens styani)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: carnivore reproduction, delayed implantation, embryonic diapause, non-invasive monitoring, pseudopregnancy, wildlife
2017
Effects of panels and perches on the behaviour of commercial slow-growing free-range meat chickens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, environmental enrichment, free-range meat chicken, panels, perches
2015
Phenomenal advanced age of pupping in a captive pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: birth timing, maternal age, phocids, pinnipeds, reproduction
2015
Diet and diet-related disorders in captive ruminants at the national zoological gardens of South Africa
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: browser, digestive tract, grazer, ruminant, serous fat atrophy
2014
Environmental complexity and use of space in slow growing free range chickens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: environmental enrichment, free-range chickens, panels, perches, use of space
2014
Early-life stress affects the behavioural and neural response of female song sparrows to conspecific song
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference
2013
The effect of body orientation on judgments of human visual attention in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: body orientation, eye gaze, gorilla, judgments, perspective taking, theory of mind, visual attention
2013