More Than Just Kibbles: Keeper Familiarity and Food Can Affect Bonobo Behavior

Authors: Marta Caselli, Emilio Russo, Jean-Pascal Guéry, Elisa Demuru, Ivan Norscia

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, food, keeper familiarity, pan paniscus, social behavior

2023

Preliminary Findings on How Different Management Systems and Social Interactions Influence Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites in White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)

Authors: Leticia Martínez, Gema Silván, Sara Cáceres, Jose Manuel Caperos, Jesús Fernández-Morán, Miguel Casares, Belén Crespo, Paloma Jimena de Andrés, Juan Carlos Illera

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: glucocorticoids, management, reproduction, stress, white rhinoceros

2022

Digestive physiology of captive capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

Authors: Ali Kiani, Marcus Clauss, Sylvia Ortmann, Catharina Vendl, Elizabeth R. Congdon, Emilio A. Herrera, Michael Kreuzer, Angela Schwarm

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: colonic separation mechanism, hindgut fermenters, methane, passage kinetics

2019

Development of a partner preference test that differentiates between established pair bonds and other relationships in socially monogamous titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus)

Authors: Sarah B. Carp, Emily S. Rothwell, Alexis Bourdon, Sara M. Freeman, Emilio Ferrer, Karen L. Bales

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: behavior, monogamy, new world monkey, nonhuman primate, social attachment

2016

Diet of the Critically Endangered Brown Spider Monkey (Ateles hybridus) in an Inter-Andean Lowland Rainforest in Colombia

Authors: AndrÉS Link, Nelson Galvis, Mateo Marquez, Jane Guerrero, Camila Solano, Pablo R. Stevenson

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: endangered primates, feeding behavior, fragmentation, frugivores, fruit availability

2012

Foraging behaviour of beef heifers and ewes in natural grasslands with distinct proportions of tussocks

Authors: Carolina Bremm, Emilio Andrés Laca, Lidiane Fonseca, Jean Carlos Mezzalira, Denise Adelaide Gomes Elejalde, Horacio Leandro Gonda, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: eragrostis plana nees, grazing behaviour, mosaic grassland, percentage of tussock cover, short-term intake rate

2012

Circadian rhythms in metabolic variables in Caenorhabditis elegans

Authors: María Laura Migliori, Sergio H. Simonetta, Andrés Romanowski, Diego A. Golombek

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: caenorhabditis elegans, circadian rhythm, metabolic variables

2011

Non-lethal effects of predators on body growth and health state of juvenile lizards, Psammdromus algirus

Authors: Emilio Civantos, Pilar López, José Martín

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: body condition, growth, immune response, lizards, predation risk

2010

Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming

Authors: J. Alan Pounds, Martín R. Bustamante, Luis A. Coloma, Jamie A. Consuegra, Michael P. L. Fogden, Pru N. Foster, Enrique La Marca, Karen L. Masters, Andrés Merino-Viteri, Robert Puschendorf, Santiago R. Ron, G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa, Christopher J. Still, Bruce E. Young

Publication/Journal: Nature

Keywords: atelopus, bufo periglenes, chytrid fungus, climate change, extinction, global warming, golden toad, monteverde harlequin frog

2006

The Effect of Environmental Manipulation on Behavior, Salivary Cortisol, and Growth of Piglets Weaned at 14 Days of Age

Authors: Luis F. Rodarte, Andrés Ducoing, Francisco Galindo, Marta C. Romano, Ricardo A. Valdez

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: belly nosing behavior, belly nosing behaviour, cortisol, early weaning, environmental enrichment, pig, piglet, swine, welfare

2004

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