Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal sociality, centrality, collective animal behavior, eigenvectors, female contraception, gorillas, primates, social networks
2024
Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis
2024
About pace: How variations in method and definition affect quantification of pacing in bears?
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: bears, pacing, stereotypy
2022
Distinguishing mobility and immobility when establishing species‐specific activity budgets: A case study with gorillas (Gorilla berengei berengei and Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords:
2022
Out of Sight, Out of Mind or Just Something in the Way? Visual Barriers Do Not Reduce Intraspecific Agonism in an All-Male Group of Nile Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, evidence-based management, reptile behavior, reptile welfare, visual barriers, zoo exhibit design
2022
Urinary oxytocin and cortisol concentrations vary by group type in male western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in North American zoos
Publication/Journal: Primates
Keywords: animal welfare, gorillas, zoos
2022
Evaluating the Effect of Visitor Presence on Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) Behavior
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, crocodilian, visitor effect, zoo
2021
Evaluating changes in salivary oxytocin and cortisol following positive reinforcement training in two adult male western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: affiliation, human-animal relationship, stress reduction, zoo animal welfare
2019
Monitoring the social behavior of a bachelor mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) dyad participating in touchscreen-mediated cognitive testing
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: affiliative behavior, animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, cognitive testing, mandrill
2019
Experimentally evaluating the function of self-directed behaviour in two adult mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx)
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, mandrill, primate cognition, self-directed behaviour, zoo
2018