Blood biochemistry parameters of Broad snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris subjected to stress conditions, appliying micro-volume techniques
Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology
Keywords: albumin, broad-snouted-caiman, glucose, stress, total protein
2023
Blood pressure monitoring in zoologically managed bonobos (Pan paniscus)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: blood pressure monitoring, bonobos, zoo
2023
Don’t use it? Don’t lose it! Why active use is not required for stimuli, resources or” enrichments” to have welfare value
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, zoo
2023
An Ethical Assessment Tool (ETHAS) to Evaluate the Application of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mammals’ Conservation: The Case of the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, assisted reproductive technologies, conservation ethics, ethical review process, ethical risk assessment, ethical self-assessment, northern white rhinoceros
2021
Effects of grazing muzzles on behavior and physiological stress of individually housed grazing miniature horses
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behavior, grazing muzzles, miniature horse, physiological stress
2020
Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers
2020
Giraffe social preferences are context dependent
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: association index, behavioural state, habitat complexity, Rothschild's giraffe, social affiliation, social network, social-structure
2018
Complex cooperative breeders: Using infant care costs to explain variability in callitrichine social and reproductive behavior
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: cooperation, ecology, mating systems, phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection
2016
Winning agonistic encounters increases testosterone and androgen receptor expression in Syrian hamsters
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: aggression, androgen receptors, estrogen alpha receptors, medial amygdala, resiliency, testosterone
2016
Dominance rank is associated with body condition in outdoor-living domestic horses (Equus caballus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: displacement, equine, fatness, obesity, social behaviour
2015