The provision of toys to pigs can improve the human-animal relationship

Authors: Míriam Marcet-Rius, Patrick Pageat, Cécile Bienboire-Frosini, Eva Teruel, Philippe Monneret, Julien Leclercq, Alessandro Cozzi

Publication/Journal: Porcine Health Management

Keywords: environmental enrichment, human-animal relationship, play behaviour, positive emotions, strange person test, tail movement

2020

Orangutans’ Comprehension of Zoo Keepers’ Communicative Signals

Authors: Guillaume Dezecache, Aude Bourgeois, Christophe Bazin, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Audrey Maille

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, gestures, inter-species communication, medical training, orangutans, speech

2019

Chimpanzee sociability is associated with vasopressin (Avpr1a) but not oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) variation

Authors: Nicky Staes, Sonja E. Koski, Philippe Helsen, Erik Fransen, Marcel Eens, Jeroen M. G. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: avpr1a, behavioral genetics, oxtr, oxytocin, pan troglodytes, personality, sociability, vasopressin

2015

Daily grazing time of dairy cows is recorded accurately using the Lifecorder Plus device

Authors: Rémy Delagarde, Philippe Lamberton

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: accelerometer, dairy cow, grazing time, methodology

2015

Assessment of landscape-scale distribution of sympatric great apes in African rainforests: Concurrent use of nest and camera-trap surveys

Authors: Yoshihiro Nakashima, Yuji Iwata, Chieko Ando, Chimene Nze Nkoguee, Eiji Inoue, Etienne-Francois Okoue Akomo, Philippe Mbehang Nguema, Thierry Diop Bineni, Ludovic Ngok Banak, Yuji Takenoshita, Alfred Ngomanda, Juichi Yamagiwa

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: camera trap, distance sampling, gabon, nest, sympatric apes

2013

Intra- and interspecific aggression do not modulate androgen levels in dusky gregories, yet male aggression is reduced by an androgen blocker

Authors: Philippe Vullioud, Redouan Bshary, Albert Frank Huascar Ros

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: 11-ketotestosterone, aggression, flutamide, simulated resident–intruder test, teleost, testosterone, year-round territoriality

2013

Manual laterality for pointing gestures compared to grasping actions in guenons and mangabeys

Authors: Audrey Maille, Amandine Chapelain, Laure Déruti, Philippe Bec, Catherine Blois-Heulin

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: broca's homologue, campbell's monkey, cercocebus torquatus, cercopithecus campbelli, communicative signal, hand preference, hemispheric specialization, red-capped mangabey

2013

Multiple exposures to familiar conspecific withdrawal is a novel robust stress paradigm in ewes

Authors: Vanessa Guesdon, Séverine Ligout, Philippe Delagrange, Michael Spedding, Frédéric Lévy, Anne-Lyse Laine, Benoît Malpaux, Elodie Chaillou

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anticipatory fear reaction, behavior, cortisol, habituation, repeated stress, sheep, social isolation

2012

Stability of social hierarchy in growing female pigs and pregnant sows

Authors: Jean-Philippe Parent, Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün, Elsa Vasseur, Renée Bergeron

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: hierarchy, pig, sow, stability, time

2012

Abstracts: 25th European Conference on Visual Perception

Authors: Pascal Mamassian, David Simmons, Chan-Sup Chung, Martin Lages, Velitchko Manahilov, Frank Pollick, Philippe Schyns, William Simpson

Publication/Journal: Perception

Keywords: human, visual perception

2002

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