Catcalls: exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: *Voice/physiology, animals, caregivers, Familiar human, felid, felidae, humans, physiology, pilot projects, psychology, rearing history, recognition, Vocal discrimination
2024
Prosocial or photo preferences? Gorillas’ prosocial choices using a touchscreen
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: gorilla gorilla gorilla, photo preference, prosocial choices, western lowland gorillas
2024
Aquarium Visitors Catch Some Rays: Rays Are More Active in the Presence of More Visitors
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranch, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare
2023
A food for all seasons: Stability of food preferences in gorillas across testing methods and seasons
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: *food preferences, gorilla, paired-choice, stability, touchscreen, validation, zoo
2022
‘Bearly’ Changing with the Seasons: Bears of Five Species Show Few Behavioral Changes Across Seasons and at Varying Visitor Densities
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: bear behavior, COVID-19, crowd size, daily attendance, season, visitor effect
2021
Silence is Golden: Auditory Preferences in Zoo-housed Gorillas
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: choice, enrichment, gorilla, sound
2021
What’s not to like about Likert? Developing a nonverbal animal preference scale (NAPS)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: gorillas, Likert scale, preference scale
2021
In or out: Response slowing across housing conditions as a measure of affect in three Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: affect, gorilla, housing, response latency, response slowing, space
2020
Behavioral and hormonal responses to the availability of forage material in Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: alfalfa, browse, feeding, glucocorticoids, regurgitation and reingestion, zoo
2018
Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Fail to Learn Abstract Cues of Differential Outcomes in a Novel Cognitive Bias Test
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: *cognitive bias, affect, conditional discrimination, gorillas, quantity
2018