Georgia Mason

How should the psychological well-being of zoo elephants be objectively investigated?

What do population-level welfare indices suggest about the well-being of zoo elephants?

Species differences in responses to captivity: stress, welfare and the comparative method.

Environmental enrichment reduces the likelihood of alopecia in adult C57BL/6J mice.

Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment.

Female C57BL/6 mice show consistent individual differences in spontaneous interaction with environmental enrichment that are predicted by neophobia.

Reprint of: Female C57BL/6 mice show consistent individual differences in spontaneous interaction with environmental enrichment that are predicted by neophobia.

Litter size predicts adult stereotypic behavior in female laboratory mice.

Environmental enrichment reduces signs of boredom in caged mink.

Environmentally enriched rearing environments reduce repetitive perseveration in caged mink, but increase spontaneous alternation.

Winning the genetic lottery: biasing birth sex ratio results in more grandchildren.

Co-housing rodents with different coat colours as a simple, non-invasive means of individual identification: validating mixed-strain housing for C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice.

Environmentally enriched male mink gain more copulations than stereotypic, barren-reared competitors.

Benefits of a ball and chain: simple environmental enrichments improve welfare and reproductive success in farmed American mink (Neovison vison).

Effects of environmental enrichment and stereotypic behavior on maternal behavior and infant viability in a model carnivore, the American mink (Neovison vison).

Cage-induced stereotypic behaviour in laboratory mice covaries with nucleus accumbens FosB/ΔFosB expression.

Mixed-strain housing for female C57BL/6, DBA/2, and BALB/c mice: validating a split-plot design that promotes refinement and reduction.

What can be learnt from wheel-running by wild mice, and how can we identify when wheel-running is pathological?

Stereotypic behaviour in standard non-enriched cages is an alternative to depression-like responses in C57BL/6 mice.

Play in juvenile mink: litter effects, stability over time, and motivational heterogeneity.

The Days and Nights of Zoo Elephants: Using Epidemiology to Better Understand Stereotypic Behavior of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in North American Zoos.

The effects of preferred natural stimuli on humans' affective states, physiological stress and mental health, and the potential implications for well-being in captive animals.

Play and optimal welfare: Does play indicate the presence of positive affective states?

A comparison of two types of running wheel in terms of mouse preference, health, and welfare.

Phylogenetic comparative methods: Harnessing the power of species diversity to investigate welfare issues in captive wild animals.

Welfare-improving enrichments greatly reduce hens' startle responses, despite little change in judgment bias.

Getting a grip: cats respond negatively to scruffing and clips.

Does demonstrator relevance affect social preferences and the social transmission of food preferences in female mice (Mus musculus)?

Hens with benefits: Can environmental enrichment make chickens more resilient to stress?

Large Lemurs: Ecological, Demographic and Environmental Risk Factors for Weight Gain in Captivity.

Where are you from? Female mice raised in enriched or conventional cages differ socially, and can be discriminated by other mice.

Cancer blues? A promising judgment bias task indicates pessimism in nude mice with tumors.

Recommendations for Abnormal Behaviour Ethograms in Monkey Research.

Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots.

Social Buffering as a Tool for Improving Rodent Welfare.

Conventional laboratory housing increases morbidity and mortality in research rodents: results of a meta-analysis.