Orangulas: effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: cortisol, ethogram, no rewards, orangutan, scheduled, visual enrichment
2020
Orangulas: effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus): effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: cortisol, ethogram, no rewards, orangutan, scheduled, visual enrichment
2020
Is the rotarod test an objective alternative to the gait score for evaluating walking ability in chickens?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, broiler, domestic fowl, gait score, motor co-ordination, walking ability
2019
The stress response is attenuated during inclement weather in parental, but not in pre-parental, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) breeding in the Low Arctic
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: corticosterone, hpa axis, life history trade-offs, parental care, snowstorms, stress
2016
Weaning and separation stress: maternal motivation decreases with litter age and litter size in farmed mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: glucocorticoids, infrared thermography (irt), litter size, maternal behaviour, stress, weaning
2016
Behavioral effects of an immunocontraceptive vaccine on eastern fox squirrels
Publication/Journal: Journal of Wildlife Management
Keywords: california, eastern fox squirrel, ecology, efficacy, fertility-control, gnrh vaccine, gonacon, gonacon(tm), gray squirrels, guidelines, immunocontraception, invasive, mirror image stimulation, open field trial, personality, population control, populations, sciurus niger, species, white-tailed deer, wild, wildlife contraception, zoology
2015
Early transfer of mated females into the maternity unit reduces stress and increases maternal care in farm mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, hpa axis, maternal behaviour, neovison vison aka mustela vison, nest building, reproduction, stress
2015
Additional foraging elements reduce abnormal behaviour – fur-chewing and stereotypic behaviour – in farmed mink (Neovison vison)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: foraging, fur-chewing, neovison vison aka mustela vison, stereotypies, stress, welfare
2013
Novelty exploration, baseline cortisol level and fur-chewing in farm mink with different intensities of stereotypic behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: abnormal behaviour, animal welfare, fur-chewing, mustela vison syn. neovison vison, stereotypic behaviour
2013
Olfactory imprinting as a mechanism for nest odour recognition in zebra finches
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: avian olfaction, early learning, familial imprinting, songbird, taeniopygia guttata, zebra finch
2013