Analytical and biological validation of a noninvasive measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces of Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Juliane Damm, Filippo Aureli, Ariadna Rangel-Negrín, Miriam Barradas-Moctezuma, Pedro A. D. Dias

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capture, circadian rhythm, cortisol, enzyme immunoassay, platyrrhines, reproductive state

2024

The Effects of Enrichment on Zoo-Housed Scarlet Ibis Behavior

Authors: Patrícia Rachinas-Lopes, Inês C. Rocha, Tiago Dias, Maria Tavares, Ricardo Neto, Carla Flanagan, João Neves

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behavior, captivity, environmental enrichment, Eudocimus ruber, scarlet ibis., Zoomarine Algarve

2024

Effects of Background Color on Stress-Linked Behavior in the Critically Endangered Lake Oku Clawed Frog (Xenopus longipes)

Authors: Arabella E Graves, Jemma E Dias, Christopher J Michaels

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: amphibian, husbandry, welfare, zoo research

2023

Baseline Behavioral Data and Behavioral Correlates of Disturbance for the Lake Oku Clawed Frog (Xenopus longipes)

Authors: Jemma E Dias, Charlotte Ellis, Tessa E Smith, Charlotte A Hosie, Benjamin Tapley, Christopher J Michaels

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: amphibian, behavior, welfare, zoo research

2022

Effects of acupuncture on the heart rate variability, cortisol levels and behavioural response induced by thunder sound in beagles

Authors: Carolina Elisabetta Martins Maccariello, Carla Caroline Franzini de Souza, Laura Morena, Daniel Penteado Martins Dias, Magda Alves de Medeiros

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: acupuncture, beagles, cortisol, dog, heart rate variability, noise stress

2018

Autonomic, endocrine and behavioural responses to thunder in laboratory and companion dogs

Authors: Carla Caroline Franzini de Souza, Carolina Elisabetta Martins Maccariello, Daniel Penteado Martins Dias, Norma Aparecida dos Santos Almeida, Magda Alves de Medeiros

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords:

2017

Behavioural, endocrine and cardiac autonomic responses to a model of startle in horses

Authors: Julia Dias Villas-Boas, Daniel Penteado Martins Dias, Pablo Ignacio Trigo, Norma Aparecida dos Santos Almeida, Fernando Queiroz de Almeida, Magda Alves de Medeiros

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: autonomic response, behaviour, cardiac interval variability, cortisol, horses, reactivity, startle response, umbrella-opening

2016

Measurement of cognitive bias and cortisol levels to evaluate the effects of space restriction on captive collared peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

Authors: Flávia R. M. Oliveira, Sérgio L. G. Nogueira-Filho, Maria B. C. Sousa, Carlos T. S. Dias, Michael Mendl, Selene S. C. Nogueira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, judgement bias, stress

2016

Diphenyl diselenide supplemented diet reduces depressive-like behavior in hypothyroid female rats

Authors: Glaecir Roseni Mundstock Dias, Tielle Moraes de Almeida, Jéssie Haigert Sudati, Fernando Dobrachinski, Sandra Pavin, Félix Alexandre Antunes Soares, Cristina Wayne Nogueira, Nilda Berenice Vargas Barbosa

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: depressive-like behavior, diphenyl diselenide, hypothyroidism, methimazole, oxidative stress

2014

Nitrogen requirements of white-lipped peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

Authors: Sérgio L. G. Nogueira-Filho, Rogério M. Borges, Alcester Mendes, Carlos T. S. Dias

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal nutrition, balance trials, comparative physiology, endogenous urinary nitrogen, metabolic fecal nitrogen, wildlife feeding

2014

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