Animal Welfare Research

Mason MA, Semple S, Marshall HH, McElligott AG (2024). Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice. Animal Behaviour 209, 227-240.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334722300307X

Narworth C, Martin ZH, McElligott AG (2020). Goats follow human pointing gestures in an object-choice task.  Frontiers in Psychology 11, 915.

Web link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00915/full

Baciadonna L, Briefer EF, McElligott AG (2020). Investigation of reward quality-related behaviour as a tool to assess emotions. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 225, 104968

Web link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159120300460

Baciadonna L, Briefer EF, Favaro L, McElligott AG (2019). Goats distinguish between positive and negative emotion-linked vocalisations. Frontiers in Zoology 16, 25.
Web link: https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12983-019-0323-z

Baciadonna L, Nawroth C, Briefer EF, McElligott AG (2019). Perceptual lateralisation of vocal stimuli in goats. Current Zoology 65, 67-74.
Web link: https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/65/1/67/4939480

Nawroth C, Albuquerque N, Savalli C, Single M-S, McElligott AG (2018). Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions. Royal Society Open Science 5, 180491.
Web link: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.180491

Baruzzi C, Nawroth C, McElligott AG, Baciadonna L (2018). Motor asymmetry in goats during a stepping task. Laterality 23, 599-609.
Web link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1357650X.2017.1417993

Nawroth C, McElligott AG (2017). Human head orientation and eye visibility as indicators of attention for goats (Capra hircus). PeerJ 5, e3073
Web link: https://peerj.com/articles/3073/

Pitcher B, Briefer EF, Baciadona L, McElligott AG (2017) Cross-modal recognition of familiar conspecifics in goats. Royal Society Open Science 4, 160346.
Web link: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/2/160346

Nawroth C, Prentice PM, McElligott AG (2017). Individual personality differences in goats predict their performance in visual learning and non-associative cognitive tasks. Behavioural Processes 134, 43-53
Web link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635716301838

Baciadonna L, Nawroth C McElligott AG (2016). Judgement bias in goats (Capra hircus): investigating the effects of human grooming. PeerJ 4, e2485
Web link:  https://peerj.com/articles/2485/

Nawroth C, Baciadonna L, McElligott AG (2016). Goats learn socially from humans in a spatial problem-solving task. Animal Behaviour 121, 123-129.
Web link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347216302081

Nawroth C, Brett J, McElligott AG (2016). Goats display audience-dependent human-directed gazing behaviour in a problem-solving task. Biology Letters 12, 20160283.
Web link:  http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/7/20160283

Briefer EF, Oxley J, McElligott AG (2015). Autonomic nervous system reactivity in a free-ranging mammal: effects of dominance rank and personality. Animal Behaviour 110, 121-132.
Web link:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334721500353X

Briefer EF, Tettamanti F, McElligott AG (2015). Emotions in goats: mapping physiological, behavioural and vocal profiles. Animal Behaviour 99, 131-143.
Web link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347214004126

Briefer EF, Haque S, Baciadonna L, McElligott AG (2014). Goats excel at learning and remembering a highly novel cognitive task. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 20.
Web link: http://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-9994-11-20

Baciadonna L, McElligott AG, Briefer EF (2013). Goats favour personal over social information in an experimental foraging task. PeerJ 1, e172.
Web link: https://peerj.com/articles/172/

Briefer EF, McElligott AG (2013). Rescued goats at a sanctuary display positive mood after former neglect. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 146, 45-55.
Web link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159113000890