Preference assessments as a tool to evaluate environmental enrichment

Authors: Jocelyn M Woods, Erin K Lane, Lance J Miller

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

Authors: Erin B Rasmussen, M Christopher Newland, Ethan Hemmelman

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)

Authors: Erin Curry, Lissa J. Browning, Paul Reinhart, Terri L. Roth

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

Authors: Ane Rodriguez-Aurrekoetxea, Erin Hoerl Leone, Inma Estevez

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)

Authors: Jonathan L. Temte, Erin Flynn

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

Authors: Cristina Gattiker, Ian Espie, Antoinette Kotze, Emily P. Lane, Daryl Codron, Marcus Clauss

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

Authors: Ane Rodriguez-Aurrekoetxea, Erin Hoerl Leone, Inma Estevez

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

Authors: Kim L. Schmidt, Erin S. McCallum, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

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)

Authors: Amanda E. Bania, Erin E. Stromberg

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: body orientation, eye gaze, gorilla, judgments, perspective taking, theory of mind, visual attention

2013