Orangutans’ Comprehension of Zoo Keepers’ Communicative Signals
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, gestures, inter-species communication, medical training, orangutans, speech
2019
Positive Reinforcement Conditioning as a Tool for Frequent Minimally Invasive Blood and Vaginal Swab Sampling in African Lions (Panthera Leo)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: african lion, behavioral training, blood collection, operant conditioning, vaginal swab collection
2019
Applying Behavioral Conditioning to Identify Anticipatory Behaviors
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, human-animal interactions, zoo animals
2017
The glass is not yet half empty: agitation but not Varroa treatment causes cognitive bias in honey bees
Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition
Keywords: animal behavior, apidae, apis-mellifera hymenoptera, appetitive learning, aversive learning, behavioral sciences, colonies, destructor, formic acid, invertebrate emotion, invertebrate welfare, jacobsoni acari, judgment bias, olfactory conditioning, proboscis extension, proboscis extension reflex, zoology
2017
Hot chicks, cold feet
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, chicken, footpad, infrared thermography, stress-induced hyperthermia, thermal imaging
2017
Investigations Into Equine Transport-Related Problem Behaviors: Survey Results
Publication/Journal: Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Keywords: australia, behavioral problems, equitation, horse, horses, injury, reinforcement, risk-factors, science, slaughter, stress, training, transportation, veterinary sciences, welfare
2017
Prey behavioural reaction norms: response to threat predicts susceptibility to predation
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal personality, antipredator behaviour, boldness, oyster reef, predator–prey
2017
Successful treatment of infertility in a female Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: hysterosalpingography (hsg), operant conditioning, pressurized fallopian tube perfusion, proximal tube obstruction (pto), ultrasound
2017
Does the anticipatory behaviour of chickens communicate reward quality?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: anticipatory behaviour, chickens, conditioning, dustbath, rewards
2016
Early life stress accelerates behavioral and neural maturation of the hippocampus in male mice
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: early life stress, mice
2016