Biological and Management-Related Predictors of Reproductive Success in North American Ex Situ Asian Small-Clawed Otters (Aonyx cinereus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: breeding programs, deslorelin, habitat complexity, mate incompatibility, reproductive viability analysis (RVA), reversibility, Suprelorin, zoo
2023
Behavioural patterns in zoo-housed Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) revealed using long-term keeper-collected data: validation of approaches and improved husbandry
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity budget, captivity, ethogram, seasonal patterns, visitor effects, weather
2022
Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, captive breeding, parrots, phylogenetic comparative methods, stress
2021
Are “visitor effects” overestimated? Behaviour in captive lemurs is mainly driven by co-variation with time and weather
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: activity budget, captivity, lemur catta, time of day, zoo animals
2019
A welfare assessment of methods used for harvesting, hunting and population control of kangaroos and wallabies
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, culling, lethal control, macropod, non-lethal control, population management
2015
‘There’s an app for that’: a new program for the collection of behavioural field data
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: android application, behaviour sampling method, data collection, fieldwork, primatology
2014
Feather-Damaging Behavior in Companion Parrots: Are Species Differences Intrinsic or Caused by Variations in Husbandry?
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, companion, feather damaging, husbandry, parrots
2013
Plastic animals in cages: behavioural flexibility and responses to captivity
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: captivity-induced rapid environmental change, conservation, environmental enrichment, stereotypic behaviour, welfare
2013
Inferential and visual analysis of ethogram data using multivariate techniques
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: activity budget, bootstrap, confidence interval, crab, dog, elephant, ethogram, principal component analysis, tiger
2012
Color preferences in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: apes, chimpanzees, color preferences, gorillas, vision
2008