Effects of Failure on California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) Gameplay Strategies and Interest in a Cognitive Task: Implications for Cognitive Enrichment in Pinnipeds
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: *animal cognition, california sea lion, cognitive enrichment, marine mammal welfare, technological enrichment
2023
Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Keywords: adult mortality, first-year mortality, life expectancy, lifespan equality, population welfare
2023
Effects of multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: colletive behaviour, environmental stressors, gasterosteus aculeatus, group personality, stickleback, thigmotaxis
2020
Automated detection and characterisation of rumination in sheep using in vivo electrophysiology
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: dysphagia, electroencephalogram, electromyogram, electrooculogram, mastication
2016
Neural modulators of temperament: A multivariate approach to personality trait identification in the horse
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, behavior, docility, dopamine, equine, temperament
2016
Using non-invasive faecal hormone metabolite monitoring to detect reproductive patterns, seasonality and pregnancy in red river hogs (Potamochoerus porcus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: enzyme immunoassay (eia), faecal hormone metabolite, red river hogs, reproduction
2016
Assessment of Flooring Renovations on African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Behavior and Glucocorticoid Response
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: asian elephant, captive elephants, endocrinology, maximus, multidisciplinary sciences, national-park, nocturnal behavior, serum cortisol, stress, walking rates, zoo elephants
2015
Blunted hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal axis response to predator odor predicts high stress reactivity
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, avoidance, hpa axis, paraventricular nucleus, stress
2015
Cognitive differences in horses performing locomotor versus oral stereotypic behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, dopamine, equine, habit, stereotypy, striatum
2015
Comparison of the genetic variation of captive ring-tailed lemurs with a wild population in Madagascar
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captivity, conservation, genetic variability, lemur catta, microsatellites, mtdna sequences
2015