The Matter of Non-Avian Reptile Sentience, and Why It “Matters” to Them: A Conceptual, Ethical and Scientific Review

Extreme site fidelity of the olm ( Proteus anguinus ) revealed by a long‐term capture–mark–recapture study

(2020) G. Balázs et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

What do animals want?

(2019) B Franks   ANIMAL WELFARE

Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness

(2019) Frans B. M. de Waal   PLOS BIOLOGY

Tortoises develop and overcome position biases in a reversal learning task

(2019) Justin M. Bridgeman et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Welfare-aligned Sentience: Enhanced Capacities to Experience, Interact, Anticipate, Choose and Survive

(2019) David J. Mellor   Animals

The underestimated giants: operant conditioning, visual discrimination and long-term memory in giant tortoises

(2019) Tamar Gutnick et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Given the Cold Shoulder: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Reptile Sentience

(2019) Lambert et al.   Animals

Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard

(2018) Yin Qi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Subproblem learning and reversal of a multidimensional visual cue in a lizard: evidence for behavioural flexibility?

(2018) Birgit Szabo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Be kind to others: Prosocial behaviours and their implications for animal welfare

(2018) Jean-Loup Rault   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

A roadmap towards a functional paradigm for learning & memory in plants

(2018) Dimitrios Michmizos et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Spatial considerations for captive snakes

(2018) Clifford Warwick et al.   Journal of Veterinary Behavior-Clinical Applications and Research

Applying Behavioral Conditioning to Identify Anticipatory Behaviors

(2017) Bethany L. Krebs et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE

Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior

(2017) Olli J. Loukola et al.   SCIENCE

Feeding live invertebrate prey in zoos and aquaria: Are there welfare concerns?

(2017) Martha Keller   ZOO BIOLOGY

Repeatability and correlation of physiological traits: Do ectotherms have a “thermal type”?

(2016) Celine T. Goulet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

(2016) Sylvain Alem et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Animal personality and state–behaviour feedbacks: a review and guide for empiricists

(2015) Andrew Sih et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Consistent Individual Behavioral Variation: The Difference between Temperament, Personality and Behavioral Syndromes

(2015) Jill MacKay et al.   Animals

Predators in training: operant conditioning of novel behavior in wild Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivitattus)

(2014) Sherri A. Emer et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Touchscreen performance and knowledge transfer in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria)

(2014) Julia Mueller-Paul et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Apparent coordination and collaboration in cooperatively hunting crocodilians

(2014) Vladimir Dinets   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Enriching Tortoises: Assessing Color Preference

(2014) Luiza F. Passos et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE

Scientific assessment of animal welfare

(2014) PH Hemsworth et al.   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Positive animal welfare states and encouraging environment-focused and animal-to-animal interactive behaviours

(2014) DJ Mellor   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Enhancing animal welfare by creating opportunities for positive affective engagement

(2014) DJ Mellor   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Is preference a predictor of enrichment efficacy in Galapagos tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra)?

(2014) Lindsay R. Mehrkam et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

Evolution of behavioural phenotypes: influences of ancestry and expression

(2013) Susan A. Foster   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Australia's ethical framework for when animals are used for scientific purposes

(2013) M Rose et al.   ANIMAL WELFARE

Reliably signalling a startling husbandry event improves welfare of zoo-housed capuchins (Sapajus apella)

(2013) Kristina Rimpley et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Environmental enrichment and cognitive complexity in reptiles and amphibians: Concepts, review, and implications for captive populations

(2013) Gordon M. Burghardt   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Interaction between territoriality, spatial environment, and hippocampal neurogenesis in male side-blotched lizards.

(2013) Lara D. LaDage et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Global Taxonomic Diversity of Living Reptiles

(2013) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   PLoS One

Picture–object recognition in the tortoise Chelonoidis carbonaria

(2012) Anna Wilkinson et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Spatial memory: are lizards really deficient?

(2012) L. D. LaDage et al.   Biology Letters

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Radial-arm-maze behavior of the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria).

(2012) Julia Mueller-Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Peripheral temperature drop in response to anticipation and consumption of a signaled palatable reward in laying hens (Gallus domesticus)

(2012) Randi Oppermann Moe et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution

(2012) Max Wolf et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Animal Sentience: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading?

(2012) Helen Proctor   Animals

Behavioural flexibility and problem-solving in a tropical lizard

(2011) M. Leal et al.   Biology Letters

Visual discrimination and reversal learning in rough-necked monitor lizards (Varanus rudicollis).

(2011) Diann E. Gaalema   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Turtles (Pseudemys nelsoni) learn about visual cues indicating food from experienced turtles.

(2011) Karen M. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Invertebrate welfare: where is the real evidence for conscious affective states?

(2011) Georgia J. Mason   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Gaze following in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

(2010) Anna Wilkinson et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Agamas exhibit behavioral syndromes: bolder males bask and feed more but may suffer higher predation

(2010) Alecia J. Carter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social learning in a non-social reptile (Geochelone carbonaria)

(2010) A. Wilkinson et al.   Biology Letters

Do Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni) discriminate colours? An experiment with natural and artificial stimuli

(2010) D. Pellitteri-Rosa et al.   ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

An explanatory framework for adaptive personality differences

(2010) M. Wolf et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dorsal cortex volume in male side-blotched lizards, Uta stansburiana, is associated with different space use strategies

(2009) Lara D. LaDage et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information

(2009) Donald M. Broom et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Prospective cognition in animals

(2009) C.R. Raby et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The evolution of primate visual self-recognition: evidence of absence in lesser apes

(2009) T. Suddendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do animals live in the present?

(2008) Michael Mendl et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Behavioural responses to photographs by pictorially naïve baboons (Papio anubis), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2008) Carole Parron et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The Science of Animal Suffering

(2008) Marian Stamp Dawkins   ETHOLOGY

Mesolimbic interaction of emotional valence and reward improves memory formation

(2007) Bianca C. Wittmann et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA