Extensive human presence and regular gentle handling improve growth, survival and immune competence in ostrich chicks
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, human-animal interactions, immunity, performance, struthio camelus
2020
Uncertainty in risky environments: a high-risk phenotype interferes with social learning about risk and safety
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: cultural transmission, decision-making, neophobia, secondary traumatization, stereotypy
2016
Mate choice, maternal investment and implications for ostrich welfare in a farming environment
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: growth, immune resistance, poultry, production, struthio camelus, survival
2015
Effects of maternal experience on fearfulness and maternal behaviour in a precocial bird
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: breeding success, coturnix coturnix japonica, japanese quail, maternal care, maternal effect, maternal experience, precocial bird
2013
Sexual segregation in rockhopper penguins during incubation
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: ecological niche model, energetic requirement, eudyptes chrysocome, falkland islands/islas malvinas, gps logger, maxent, sex-specific behaviour, southern rockhopper penguin, spatial segregation, stable isotope analysis
2013
Maternal deposition of yolk corticosterone in clutches of southern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: disturbance, laying date, laying sequence, maternal investment, reversed hatching asynchrony, southern rockhopper penguins (eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome), yolk corticosterone
2009
Linear social dominance hierarchy and corticosterone responses in male mallards and pintails
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anas acuta, anas platyrynchos, corticosterone, dominance status, mallards, pintails, stress response
2005