Is boredom an animal welfare concern?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, boredom, emotional states, exploratory behaviour, individual differences, sensation-seeking
2019
Boredom-like states in mink and their behavioural correlates: A replicate study
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, emotional states, environmental enrichment, inactivity, neovison vison, sensation-seeking
2017
Some like it varied: Individual differences in preference for feed variety in dairy heifers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, curiosity, foraging behaviour, individual differences, neophobia, preference
2017
Inconsistency in dairy calves’ responses to tests of fearfulness
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: fearfulness, human-animal relationship, neophobia, reliability, validity, well-being
2016
What can inactivity (in its various forms) reveal about affective states in non-human animals? A review
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: affective states, animal welfare, fear, inactivity, indicator, validation
2015
Providing ‘get-away bunks’ and other enrichments to primiparous adult female mink improves their reproductive productivity
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: bunks, cortisol, enrichments, infant mortality, mink, nursing sickness, welfare
2013
Sleeping tight or hiding in fright? The welfare implications of different subtypes of inactivity in mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, hiding, inactivity, neovison vison
2013
Individual differences in stereotypic behaviour predict individual differences in the nature and degree of enrichment use in caged American mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, environmental enrichment, establishment, individual variation, motivation, stereotypic behaviour
2012
Mink with Divergent Activity Levels have Divergent Reproductive Strategies
Publication/Journal: Ethology
Keywords: activity level, mink, reproductive strategies
2012
Who’s afraid of the big bad glove? Testing for fear and its correlates in mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: fear, mink, reliability, reproductive success, temperament, validity, welfare
2011