Non-invasive assessment of fecal glucocorticoid and androgen metabolites in the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)

Authors: Gabriella L. Flacke, Linda M. Penfold, Franz Schwarzenberger, Graeme B. Martin, César A. Rosales-Nieto, Monique C. J. Paris

Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: acth challenge, cortisol, enzyme immunoassay (eia), Fecal steroid hormone metabolites, Pygmy hippo, testosterone

2023

Caretaker attitudes and animal training are associated with alpaca behaviour towards humans—An online survey

Authors: Ines Windschnurer, Lisa Fischer, Takuya Yanagida, Cassandra Eibl, Sonja Franz, Susanne Waiblinger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: attitudes, behaviour, behavioural problems, ease of handling, human-animal interactions, new world camelids

2021

Effects of parity and litter size on cortisol measures in commercially housed sows and their offspring

Authors: Sanne Roelofs, Lisa Godding, Jeanne R. de Haan, Franz Josef van der Staay, Rebecca E. Nordquist

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: birth weight, hair cortisol, pigs, salivary cortisol, stress

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

Female and male pigs’ performance in a spatial holeboard and judgment bias task

Authors: Sanne Roelofs, Rebecca E. Nordquist, Franz Josef van der Staay

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cognition, judgment bias, memory, pigs, sex differences, spatial learning

2017

Hormonal correlates of natal dispersal and rank attainment in wild male baboons

Authors: Mercy Y. Akinyi, Laurence R. Gesquiere, Mathias Franz, Patrick O. Onyango, Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: baboons, dispersal, glucocorticoids, rank attainment, testosterone

2017

A review of behavioural methods to study emotion and mood in pigs, Sus scrofa

Authors: Eimear Murphy, Rebecca E. Nordquist, Franz Josef van der Staay

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, emotion, open field, pig, play, vocalisation

2014

Stable heterosexual associations in a promiscuous primate

Authors: Julia Ostner, Linda Vigilant, Jyotsna Bhagavatula, Mathias Franz, Oliver Schülke

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: assamese macaque, friendship, macaca assamensis, male–female association, mating success, pair bond evolution, paternal care, paternity

2013

Rehabilitation of research chimpanzees: Stress and coping after long-term isolation

Authors: Michaela Reimers, Franz Schwarzenberger, Signe Preuschoft

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: boldness, chimpanzee, cortisol, deprivation, dominance, novelty, rehabilitation, resocialization, social initiation, stress

2007

Enamel hypoplasia provides insights into early systemic stress in wild and captive giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Authors: Tamara A. Franz-Odendaal

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology

Keywords: captive, enamel hypoplasia, giraffidae, systemic stress

2004