Go for Lipids! Food Preferences and Nutrient Composition in Zoo-Housed White-Faced Sakis, Pithecia pithecia

Authors: Vasco Alexandre Martins, Natalie Magnusson, Matthias Laska

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords: *food preferences, correlational analysis, nutrient composition, Pithecia pitchecia, white-faced saki

2022

Preference and Motivation Tests for Body Tactile Stimulation in Fish

Authors: Ana Carolina dos Santos Gauy, Marcela Cesar Bolognesi, Guilherme Delgado Martins, Eliane Gonçalves-de-Freitas

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: aggressive behavior, choice, motivation, social stress, welfare

2021

Personality traits modulate stress responses after enclosure change of captive capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)

Authors: Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira, Elanne De Paiva Fonseca, Ana Cecilia Correia Santos Das Chagas, Luiz Guilherme Mesquita Pinheiro, Maria Bernardete Cordeiro de Sousa, Hélderes Peregrino Alves Da Silva, Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho, Renata Gonçalves Ferreira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal personality, animal welfare, captivity, enclosure change, individual differences, primates

2020

Canine coprophagic behavior is influenced by coprophagic cohabitant

Authors: Andressa Rodrigues Amaral, Mariana Yukari Hayasaki Porsani, Priscila Oliveira Martins, Fabio Alves Teixeira, Henrique Tobaro Macedo, Vivian Pedrinelli, Thiago Henrique Annibale Vendramini, Marcio Antonio Brunetto

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: behavior, dog, eating disorder, feces, nutrition

2018

Diel and infradian (7-day) activity rhythms in Mexican spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) kept with and without visitor contact

Authors: Jairo Muñoz-Delgado, Sergio Pérez-Galicia, José Carlos Sánchez-Ferrer, Domingo Canales Espinosa, Hans G. Erkert

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: activity pattern, circadian rhythm, circaseptan rhythm, masking effect, zoo visitor effect

2018

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

Activity budget and social interactions in semi-captive gray woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha cana) living in an ex situ conservation area in Central Amazonia

Authors: Bárbara Cartagena-Matos, Thierry Gasnier, Mariana Cravo-Mota, Bruna Martins Bezerra

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: atelidae, behavior, neotropics, semi-captivity

2017

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

Do aversive-based training methods actually compromise dog welfare?: A literature review

Authors: Joana Guilherme Fernandes, I. Anna S. Olsson, Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, dog, training methods, welfare

2017

Visitor effect on the behavior of a group of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) maintained at an island in Lake Catemaco, Veracruz/Mexico

Authors: Sergio Pérez-Galicia, Manuel Miranda-Anaya, Domingo Canales-Espinosa, Jairo Muñoz-Delgado

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: actimetry, activity response, behavioral changes, captivity

2017

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