Animal Behavior Research

About zebrafish and their important role in finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease.

A zebrafish is not just a zebrafish. Strain differences in zebrafish behavior and physiology.

Manually observing chickens in barns is a tedious job to which ultra-wideband tracking offers a solution. But does it interfere with normal behavior?

Is it justified to use male mice only in behavioral studies, as many diseases affect men and women differently? This might be the most important argument to favor including female mice in certain studies.

How do mice act in complete darkness? Ann-Kristina Fritz and her colleagues ordered a large, round open field with IR backlight, custom made by Noldus, to investigate.

EEG recordings – they produce useful data, but are not always easy to obtain in animal studies. You can’t really ask a horse to sit still, so these researchers invented a promising new system for EEG recording.

The personality of police horses influences how well they do in their ‘job’. That’s why personality tests are important for both animal and human welfare and safety.

At the Dr. Michael Fehlings' lab, they are on a quest to find out what exactly causes the lower success rate of delayed surgery in cervical myelopathy.

Everyone with children knows the phenomenon that what is good for a child is not always the best for a parent. The same counts for birds.

Recently, I came across an interesting paper in which American horseshoe crabs were video-tracked to investigate their internal clocks.