Effect of preceding activity and multiple testing of Belgian police horses on behavior during personality tests

Authors: Marc Pierard, Paul McGreevy, Rony Geers

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: behavioral assessment, multiple testing, personality, police horse, preceding activity

2019

Environmental and physiological determinants of huddling behavior of molting female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)

Authors: Laureline L. Chaise, Dominic J. McCafferty, Adélie Krellenstein, Susan L. Gallon, William D. Paterson, Marc Théry, André Ancel, Caroline Gilbert

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: aggregation behavior, habitat type, heat loss, meteorological variations, phocids, stomach temperature

2019

Reliability of a descriptive reference ethogram for equitation science

Authors: Marc Pierard, Paul McGreevy, Rony Geers

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: equine, ethogram, structural behavioral definitions

2019

Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation

Authors: Arian D. Wallach, Marc Bekoff, Chelsea Batavia, Michael Paul Nelson, Daniel Ramp

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: animal ethics, conservation ethics, intrinsic value, novel ecosystem, sentience, virtue ethics

2018

Rooting area and drinker affect dunging behaviour of organic pigs

Authors: Herman Maarten Vermeer, Henk Altena, Pieter Franciscus Gerardus Vereijken, Marc Bernardus Maria Bracke

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, drinking, dunging, organic, pigs, rooting

2015

Fresh wood reduces tail and ear biting and increases exploratory behaviour in finishing pigs

Authors: Helena Telkänranta, Marc B. M. Bracke, Anna Valros

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, fattening pigs, oral-nasal manipulation, point-source enrichment, redirected behaviours, welfare

2014

The welfare ethics of the commercial killing of free-ranging kangaroos: an evaluation of the benefits and costs of the industry

Authors: D. Ben-Ami, K. Boom, L. Boronyak, C. Townend, D. Ramp, D. B. Croft, M. Bekoff

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, commercial, ethics, harvest, industry, kangaroo

2014

Noise annoys: effects of noise on breeding great tits depend on personality but not on noise characteristics

Authors: Marc Naguib, Kees van Oers, Annika Braakhuis, Maaike Griffioen, Piet de Goede, Joseph R. Waas

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal personality, anthropogenic disturbance, begging, great tit, noise, parental care, parus major

2013

Temporal and spatial sampling strategies maintain tracking success of whelks to prey patches of differing distributions

Authors: Miranda L. Wilson, Marc J. Weissburg

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: busycon carica, knobbed whelk, navigational efficiency, odour plume, odour-mediated predation, prey distribution, sensing strategies, spatial sampling, temporal integration, time averaging

2012