Georgia Mason Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Georgia Mason has not added a biography. If you are Georgia Mason and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications Conventional Laboratory Housing Increases Morbidity and Mortality in Research Rodents: Results of a Meta-analysis BMC Biology. Jan, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35022024 Social Buffering As a Tool for Improving Rodent Welfare Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS. Jan, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 34915978 Nature Calls: Intelligence and Natural Foraging Style Predict Poor Welfare in Captive Parrots Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 10, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34610768 Recommendations for Abnormal Behaviour Ethograms in Monkey Research Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI. May, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34069667 Cancer Blues? A Promising Judgment Bias Task Indicates Pessimism in Nude Mice with Tumors Physiology & Behavior. 09, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34029586 Where Are You From? Female Mice Raised in Enriched or Conventional Cages Differ Socially, and Can Be Discriminated by Other Mice Behavioural Brain Research. 02, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33249072 Large Lemurs: Ecological, Demographic and Environmental Risk Factors for Weight Gain in Captivity Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI. Aug, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32824807 Hens with Benefits: Can Environmental Enrichment Make Chickens More Resilient to Stress? Physiology & Behavior. 11, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32738316 Getting a Grip: Cats Respond Negatively to Scruffing and Clips The Veterinary Record. 03, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31586939 Does Demonstrator Relevance Affect Social Preferences and the Social Transmission of Food Preferences in Female Mice (Mus Musculus)? Behavioural Processes. Dec, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31622658 Welfare-improving Enrichments Greatly Reduce Hens' Startle Responses, Despite Little Change in Judgment Bias Scientific Reports. 08, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31417122 Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: Harnessing the Power of Species Diversity to Investigate Welfare Issues in Captive Wild Animals Zoo Biology. Sep, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30058134 A Comparison of Two Types of Running Wheel in Terms of Mouse Preference, Health, and Welfare Physiology & Behavior. 07, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29653112 Play and Optimal Welfare: Does Play Indicate the Presence of Positive Affective States? Behavioural Processes. Nov, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29155308 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 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Dec, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28916271 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 PloS One. 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27416071 Play in Juvenile Mink: Litter Effects, Stability over Time, and Motivational Heterogeneity Developmental Psychobiology. 12, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27183962 Stereotypic Behaviour in Standard Non-enriched Cages is an Alternative to Depression-like Responses in C57BL/6 Mice Behavioural Brain Research. May, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26876137 What Can Be Learnt from Wheel-running by Wild Mice, and How Can We Identify when Wheel-running is Pathological? Proceedings. Biological Sciences. Feb, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26842572 Mixed-strain Housing for Female C57BL/6, DBA/2, and BALB/c Mice: Validating a Split-plot Design That Promotes Refinement and Reduction BMC Medical Research Methodology. Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26817696 Cage-induced Stereotypic Behaviour in Laboratory Mice Covaries with Nucleus Accumbens FosB/ΔFosB Expression Behavioural Brain Research. Mar, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26731014 Effects of Environmental Enrichment and Stereotypic Behavior on Maternal Behavior and Infant Viability in a Model Carnivore, the American Mink (Neovison Vison) Zoo Biology. Jan-Feb, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26536278 Benefits of a Ball and Chain: Simple Environmental Enrichments Improve Welfare and Reproductive Success in Farmed American Mink (Neovison Vison) PloS One. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25386726 Environmentally Enriched Male Mink Gain More Copulations Than Stereotypic, Barren-reared Competitors PloS One. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24282547 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 PloS One. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24204864 Winning the Genetic Lottery: Biasing Birth Sex Ratio Results in More Grandchildren PloS One. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23874458 Environmentally Enriched Rearing Environments Reduce Repetitive Perseveration in Caged Mink, but Increase Spontaneous Alternation Behavioural Brain Research. Feb, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23159704 Environmental Enrichment Reduces Signs of Boredom in Caged Mink PloS One. 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23155462 Litter Size Predicts Adult Stereotypic Behavior in Female Laboratory Mice Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS. Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23043805 Reprint Of: Female C57BL/6 Mice Show Consistent Individual Differences in Spontaneous Interaction with Environmental Enrichment That Are Predicted by Neophobia Behavioural Brain Research. Feb, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22000859 Female C57BL/6 Mice Show Consistent Individual Differences in Spontaneous Interaction with Environmental Enrichment That Are Predicted by Neophobia Behavioural Brain Research. Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21689685 Recurrent Perseveration Correlates with Abnormal Repetitive Locomotion in Adult Mink but is Not Reduced by Environmental Enrichment Behavioural Brain Research. Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21466825 Environmental Enrichment Reduces the Likelihood of Alopecia in Adult C57BL/6J Mice Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS. Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21439209 Species Differences in Responses to Captivity: Stress, Welfare and the Comparative Method Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Dec, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20952089 What Do Population-level Welfare Indices Suggest About the Well-being of Zoo Elephants? Zoo Biology. Mar-Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20140956 How Should the Psychological Well-being of Zoo Elephants Be Objectively Investigated? Zoo Biology. Mar-Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19514018 Evaluación del sesgo de juicio del ratón a través de una tarea de excavación olfativa Aileen MacLellan*1, Agustina Resasco*2,3, Lauren Young4, Georgia Mason1 1Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 2Institute of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council-University of Buenos Aires, 3Laboratory of Experimental Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata, 4Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph JoVE 63426 Behavior
Evaluación del sesgo de juicio del ratón a través de una tarea de excavación olfativa Aileen MacLellan*1, Agustina Resasco*2,3, Lauren Young4, Georgia Mason1 1Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 2Institute of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council-University of Buenos Aires, 3Laboratory of Experimental Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata, 4Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph JoVE 63426 Behavior
