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Foraging opportunity and increased physical complexity both prevent and reduce psychogenic feather picking by young Amazon parrots

Authors: C.L. Meehan, J.R. Millam, J.A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, feather pecking, feather picking, foraging behavior, foraging behaviour, parrots, psittacine

Year: 2003

Isosexual pair housing improves the welfare of young Amazon parrots

Authors: C.L. Meehan, J.P. Garner, J.A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, parrots, psittacine, social housing, welfare

Year: 2003

Indicators of physiological stress in broiler chickens during road transportation

Authors: M.A. Mitchell, P.J. Kettlewell, M.H. Maxwell

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, chicken, creatine kinase, haematology, physiological stress, transport stress

Year: 1992

Turkeys prefer fluorescent light with supplementary ultraviolet radiation

Authors: C. Moinard, C.M. Sherwin

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, preference, turkey, ultraviolet radiation, welfare

Year: 1999

Name that tune: call discrimination and individual recognition in Magellanic penguins

Authors: J. Clark, P. Boersma, D. Olmsted

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: call discrimination, individual recognition, manellanic penguins, recognition, reproduction, spheniscus magellanicus, vocalization

Year: 2006

An improved model of heat transfer through penguin feathers and down

Authors: Ning Du, Jintu Fan, Huijun Wu, Shuo Chen, Yang Liu

Publication/Journal: Journal of Theoretical Biology

Keywords: finite volume, heat transfer, monte-carlo, penguin feather

Year: 2007

Habituation potential of yellow-eyed penguins depends on sex, character and previous experience with humans

Authors: U. Ellenberg, T. Mattern, P. Seddon

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: ecotourism, habituation, heart rate telemetry, human disturbance, individual differences, megadyptes antipodes, personality, sensitization, temperament, yellow-eyed penguin

Year: 2009

Increasing energy expenditure for a deep-diving bird alters time allocation during the dive cycle

Authors: K. Elliott, G. Davoren, A. Gaston

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brünnich's guillemot, energy expenditure, foraging behavior, foraging behaviour, handicap, uria lomvia

Year: 2008

Behavioral and hormonal responses of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) to tourism and nest site visitation

Authors: Gene S. Fowler

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: adrenocortical response, corticosterone, ecotourism, human disturbance, penguins, stress

Year: 1999

State-dependent decisions in long-term fasting king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, during courtship and incubation

Authors: M. Gauthier-Clerc

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: antarctic islands, aptenodytes patagonicus, aves, body weight, breeding behavior, breeding season, breeding success, courtship behavior, crozet islands, field study, incubation, life history, marine environment, metabolic storage, penguins, sexual dimorphism, starvation, vertebrata

Year: 2001