Georgia Mason

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