Can biomarkers of biological age be used to assess cumulative lifetime experience?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, biological age, exposome, hippocampus, lifetime experience, telomere length
2019
Do horses with poor welfare show ‘pessimistic’ cognitive biases?
Publication/Journal: Science of Nature
Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, back-pain, behavioral-disorders, cognitive judgement biases, enrichment, environmental, equus-caballus, horses, judgment bias, laboratory rats, management factors, multidisciplinary sciences, rattus-norvegicus, starlings sturnus-vulgaris
2017
Cumulative stress in research animals: Telomere attrition as a biomarker in a welfare context?
Publication/Journal: Bioessays
Keywords: age, animal welfare, anxiety disorders, biochemistry & molecular biology, biological age, biology, biomarker, body-mass, chronic pain, cortisol, cumulative experience, cumulative severity, dynamics, length, life-span, oxidative stress, stress, telomere dynamics
2016
Early life adversity increases foraging and information gathering in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: body mass regulation, contrafreeloading, developmental stress, early life adversity, european starling, food insecurity, foraging, sturnus vulgaris
2015
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation
Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition
Keywords: animal play, applying ideas, human playfulness, novel solutions
2014
Effects of developmental history on the behavioural responses of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) to laboratory husbandry
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cage position, enrichment, european starling, laboratory husbandry, rearing environment
2013
Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural disinhibition, early life stress, european starling, impulsivity, maternal deprivation, perseveration, sturnus vulgaris
2013
Responses of chimpanzees to cues of conspecific observation
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: chimpanzee, cooperation, pan troglodytes, reputation, social intelligence, watching eyes
2013
Animal welfare and decision making in wildlife research
Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation
Keywords: animal ethics, wildlife conservation.
2012
Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: *cognitive bias, affect, cognition, environmental enrichment, rats
2011