Making a Tiger’s Day: Free-Operant Assessment and Environmental Enrichment to Improve the Daily Lives of Captive Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris)
Publication/Journal: Behavior Analysis in Practice
Keywords: environmental enrichment, free operant, preference assessment, tigers
2020
Preference assessments as a tool to evaluate environmental enrichment
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, free operant, paired-choice, preference assessment
2020
The Relevance of Operant Behavior in Conceptualizing the Psychological Well-Being of Captive Animals
Publication/Journal: Perspectives on Behavior Science
Keywords: animal welfare, operant behavior
2020
Body language: Its importance for communication with horses
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: body language, communication, equine, handling, safety
2019
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
A Framework to Assess the Impact of New Animal Management Technologies on Welfare: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, cattle, cognition, cognitive activation theory of stress, livestock, sheep, virtual fencing
2018
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