Responses to Reduced Feeding Frequency in Captive-Born Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus): Implications for Behavioural and Physiological Stress and Gastrointestinal Health

Authors: Kelsey L. Brown, André Ganswindt, Gerhard Steenkamp, Adrian S. Tordiffe

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: captive diet, cheetah, gastrointestinal health, stress, wildlife husbandry

2023

Physiological and behavioural responses of a small heterothermic mammal to fire stimuli

Authors: Clare Stawski, Jaya K. Matthews, Gerhard Körtner, Fritz Geiser

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: ash, charcoal, marsupial, sminthopsis crassicaudata, smoke, torpor

2015

Autonomic reactions indicating positive affect during acoustic reward learning in domestic pigs

Authors: Manuela Zebunke, Jan Langbein, Gerhard Manteuffel, Birger Puppe

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal welfare, autonomic nervous system, cognition, emotion, environmental enrichment, heart rate variability, operant conditioning, sus scrofa

2011

Behavioural and cardiac responses towards conspecific distress calls in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa)

Authors: Sandra Düpjan, Armin Tuchscherer, Jan Langbein, Peter-Christian Schön, Gerhard Manteuffel, Birger Puppe

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: behaviour, distress, emotion, heart rate, pig, vocalisation

2011

Increasing farm animal welfare by positively motivated instrumental behaviour

Authors: Gerhard Manteuffel, Jan Langbein, Birger Puppe

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, control, instrumental learning, motivation, predictability

2009

Exploration of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function as a tool to evaluate animal welfare

Authors: Pierre Mormède, Stéphane Andanson, Benoit Aupérin, Bonne Beerda, Daniel Guémené, Jens Malmkvist, Xavier Manteca, Gerhard Manteuffel, Patrick Prunet, Cornelis G. van Reenen, Sabine Richard, Isabelle Veissier

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: acth, animal welfare, cattle, dexamethasone suppression test, fish, fox, fur animals, glucocorticoid hormones, hpa axis, mink, pig, poultry, stress

2007

Comparative Ultrasonographic Investigations of the Gastrointestinal Tract and the Liver in Healthy and Diseased Pigeons

Authors: Michael Pees, Ingmar Kiefer, Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns, Lucio Filippich, Juergen Kiefer, Gerhard Oechtering

Publication/Journal: Veterinary Radiology Ultrasound

Keywords: bird, intestine, liver, pigeon, ultrasound

2006

Central nervous regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and its impact on fertility, immunity, metabolism and animal welfare – a review

Authors: Gerhard Manteuffel

Publication/Journal: Archiv Tierzucht/Archives Animal Breeding

Keywords: animal welfare, brain, hpa axis, performance, regulation

2002

Molecular sex diagnosis in castoridae

Authors: Ralph Kühn, Gerhard Schwab, Wolfgang Schröder, Oswald Rottmann

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: beaver, castoridae, hair root cells, noninvasive sex differentiation, sry gene

2002

Differentiation of Castor fiber and Castor Canadensis by noninvasive molecular methods

Authors: Ralph Kuehn, Gerhard Schwab, Wolfgang Schroeder, Oswald Rottmann

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: beaver, castoridae, cytochrome b, hair root cells, noninvasive differentiation, rflp

2000