Physiological and behavioral effects of animal-assisted interventions on therapy dogs in pediatric oncology settings
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, animal-assisted intervention, behavior, salivary cortisol, stress, therapy dog
2018
Evaluating the role of temperature in the reproduction of the yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, gestation, mating, poikilotherm
2015
Invited review: Cessation of lactation: Effects on animal welfare
Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
Keywords: agriculture, bovine mammary-gland, dairy & animal science, dairy cow, dairy cows, dairy goat, dry period management, dry-off, food science & technology, infection, internal teat-sealant, intramammary, intramammary infection, milk production, natural behavior, reproductive-performance, somatic-cell counts, subsequent lactation, udder health
2015
Endocrine Changes in Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Pups Undergoing Rehabilitation
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: cortisol, harbor seal, stress hormones, thyroxine
2013
Parthenogenesis in a Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Epicrates cenchria cenchria)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: automixis, microsatellite, parentage, sperm storage, vasectomy
2013
Glucocorticoid and androgen signaling pathways diverge between advertisement calling and non-calling fish
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: androgen, corticosteroid, fish, vocal
2012
Maternal effects and the endocrine regulation of mandrill growth
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: body size, growth, hormones, mandrills, maternal effects
2012
Examining deep litter as environmental enrichment for a family group of wolf’s guenons, Cercopithecus wolfi
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, exhibit modification, substrate, therapeutic intervention
2010
Female mating preferences, lighting environment, and a test of the sensory bias hypothesis in the bluefin killifish
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behavioral plasticity, behavioural plasticity, color polymorphism, colour polymorphism, fundulidae, opsin expression, sensory bias, sensory drive, sexual selection
2010
A single exposure to an acute stressor has lasting consequences for the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal response to stress in free-living birds
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: corticosterone, eastern bluebird, habituation, hpa axis, repeated stressors, sialia sialis
2010