A Preliminary Study Investigating the Impact of Musical Concerts on the Behavior of Captive Fiordland Penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) and Collared Peccaries (Pecari tajacu)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal management, music, noise, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare
2020
Individual differences in zoo-housed squirrel monkeys’ (Saimiri sciureus) reactions to visitors, research participation, and personality ratings
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: animal welfare, personality, selection bias, squirrel monkeys, zoo visitors
2017
Differences in Fecal Androgen Patterns of Breeding and Nonbreeding Kori Bustards (Ardeotis kori)
2013
Cognitive sciences to relate ear postures to emotions in sheep
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, cognition, ear postures, emotions, sheep
2011
Enriched environment effects on behavior, memory and BDNF in low and high exploratory mice
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: bdnf, environmental enrichment, high exploratory mice, inhibitory avoidance, low exploratory mice, novel object recognition, open field
2011
Animals’ emotions: studies in sheep using appraisal theories
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, appraisal theories, ear postures, emotion, heart rate, sheep
2009
Learning magnifies individual variation in heterospecific mating propensity
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: assortative mating, drosophila persimilis, drosophila pseudoobscura, fruit fly, learning
2009
Paradoxical sleep deprivation activates hypothalamic nuclei that regulate food intake and stress response
Publication/Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology
Keywords: food intake, hpa axis, hypothalamus, orexin, paradoxical sleep deprivation, stress
2009
Captive breeding and rearing of critically endangered Mauritius fodies Foudia rubra for reintroduction
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive breeding, foudia, hand rearing, harvesting, reintroduction
2008
Physiological and behavioral effects of social introduction on adult male rhesus macaques
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: biotelemetry, rhesus macaques, social introductions, stress
2008