Publications
Feeding management of giraffe towards positive welfare Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Zoo Animal Welfare Assessment: Where Do We Stand? Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Evaluating Self-Directed Behaviours and Their Association with Emotional Arousal across Two Cognitive Tasks in Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp University of Antwerp
Self-directed behaviours (SDBs) are widely used as markers of emotional arousal in primates, and are commonly linked to negative arousal, or are used as indicators of stress or poor welfare. However, recent studies suggest that not all SDBs have the same function. Moreover, lateralisation in the production of these behaviours has been suggested to be associated with emotional processing. Hence, a better understanding of the production and the ...
Adult bonobos show no prosociality in both prosocial choice task and group service paradigm Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp University of Antwerp
Previous studies reported contrasting conclusions concerning bonobo prosociality, which are likely due to differences in the experimental design, the social dynamics among subjects and characteristics of the subjects themselves. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the occurrence of prosociality in animals: the cooperative breeding hypothesis and the self-domestication hypothesis. While the former predicts low levels of prosociality ...