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List of works by Ronald R Swaisgood

A captive population in crisis: Testing hypotheses for reproductive failure in captive-born southern white rhinoceros females

A management experiment evaluating nest-site selection by beach-nesting birds

scientific article published in 2017

A quantitative assessment of the efficacy of an environmental enrichment programme for giant pandas

article published in 2001

A systematic survey of the integration of animal behavior into conservation.

scientific article

Age‐dependent effects of developmental experience on morphology, performance, dispersal and survival in a translocated, endangered species

scientific article published in 2022

An autonomous GPS geofence alert system to curtail avian fatalities at wind farms

scientific article published in 2015

Analyzing the past to understand the future: Natural mating yields better reproductive rates than artificial insemination in the giant panda

Animal Welfare in Conservation Breeding: Applications and Challenges

Anti-Predator Vigilance as an Indicator of the Costs and Benefits of Supplemental Feeding in Newly Released ‘Alalā (Corvus hawaiiensis)

scientific article published on 05 August 2021

Antipredator responses of California ground squirrels to rattlesnakes and rattling sounds: the roles of sex, reproductive parity, and offspring age in assessment and decision-making rules

scientific article published in 2004

Antipredator responses of California ground squirrels to rattlesnakes and rattling sounds: the roles of sex, reproductive parity, and offspring age in assessment and decision-making rules

article

Applications of Animal Behavior to Conservation ☆

Assessing the Effectiveness of China's Panda Protection System

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

BehaviorZoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare. By GeoffHosey, VickyMelfi, and, SheilaPankhurst. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $50.00 (paper). xxii 661 p.; ill.; index. 9780199233069. 2009

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Can science save the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)? Unifying science and policy in an adaptive management paradigm.

scientific article

Capturing pests and releasing ecosystem engineers: translocation of common but diminished species to re‐establish ecological roles

scientific article published in 2019

Chemical Communication in Giant PandasExperimentation and Application

scholarly article published 23 August 2004

Chemical signals of age, sex and identity in black rhinoceros

Climate change and landscape-use patterns influence recent past distribution of giant pandas

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Coevolution of vocal signal characteristics and hearing sensitivity in forest mammals.

scientific article

Commentary: Improving well-being for captive giant pandas: Theoretical and practical issues

scientific article published in 2003

Comprehensive Breeding Techniques for the Giant Panda

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Conflict and assessment in a predator-prey system: ground squirrels versus rattlesnakes.

scientific article published on May 1999

Contextual influences on animal decision-making: Significance for behavior-based wildlife conservation and management

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

Cues from a common predator cause survival-linked behavioral adjustments in Mojave Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)

scientific article published in 2017

Current status and future directions of applied behavioral research for animal welfare and conservation

article published in 2007

Differential Investment in Sons and Daughters: Do White Rhinoceros Mothers Favor Sons?

scientific article published in 2007

Disturbance‐specific behavioral responses of giant otters exposed to ecotourism and extractive activities

scientific article published in 2021

Do opposites attract? Effects of personality matching in breeding pairs of captive giant pandas on reproductive success

Dynamics of Male-Female Multimodal Signaling Behavior across the Estrous Cycle in Giant Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Ecological scale and seasonal heterogeneity in the spatial behaviors of giant pandas.

scientific article

Effects of season and social interaction on fecal testosterone metabolites in wild male giant pandas: implications for energetics and mating strategies

scholarly article by Yong-Gang Nie et al published 14 August 2011 in European Journal of Wildlife Research

Enclosure choice and well-being in giant pandas: is it all about control?

scientific article published in 2005

Evaluation of behavioral factors influencing reproductive success and failure in captive giant pandas

scientific article published in 2004

Exploiting common senses: sensory ecology meets wildlife conservation and management

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Fear of failure in conservation: The problem and potential solutions to aid conservation of extremely small populations

article by Mariah H. Meek et al published April 2015 in Biological Conservation

Female giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) chirps advertise the caller's fertile phase

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2010)

Fitness costs of neighborhood disruption in translocations of a solitary mammal

scientific article

Free mate choice enhances conservation breeding in the endangered giant panda

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Funding Should Come to Those Who Wait

scientific article published in Science

Giant panda conservation science: how far we have come

scientific article

Giant panda distributional and habitat‐use shifts in a changing landscape

Giant panda enrichment: Meeting everyone' needs

scientific article published in 2003

Giant panda scent-marking strategies in the wild: role of season, sex and marking surface

article by Yonggang Nie et al published July 2012 in Animal Behaviour

Giant pandas attend to androgen-related variation in male bleats

scientific article published in 2012

Giant pandas discriminate individual differences in conspecific scent

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Giant pandas use odor cues to discriminate kin from nonkin.

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Habitat drives dispersal and survival of translocated juvenile desert tortoises

scientific article published in 2016

Hearing sensitivity in context: Conservation implications for a highly vocal endangered species

Hiding in plain sight: a study on camouflage and habitat selection in a slow-moving desert herbivore

article by Melia Nafus et al published 2015 in Behavioral Ecology

Hierarchical dominance structure in reintroduced California condors: correlates, consequences, and dynamics

scientific article published in 2013

Hope Springs Eternal: Biodiversity Conservation Requires That We See the Glass as Half Full

scientific article published in June 2011

How do giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) respond to varying properties of enrichments? A comparison of behavioral profiles among five enrichment items.

scientific article published in August 2005

Improving the sustainability of ex situ populations with mate choice

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance in wild giant pandas

scientific article

Influence of season and social context on male giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) vocal behaviour

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Maternal care and cub development in the sun bear

article

Mitigation-driven translocations: are we moving wildlife in the right direction?

scientific article published in 2015

Monitoring stress in captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): behavioral and hormonal responses to ambient noise

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Movement-based estimation and visualization of space use in 3D for wildlife ecology and conservation

scientific article

Old-growth forest is what giant pandas really need.

scientific article

On thin ice: Climate change and the future of Polar Bears

article by Megan A. Owen & Ronald R. Swaisgood published November 2008 in Biodiversity

Panda Downlisted but not Out of the Woods

Predicting translocation outcomes with personality for desert tortoises

scientific article published in 2017

Progress in the ecology and conservation of giant pandas

scientific article

Ranging patterns in white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum simum : implications for mating strategies

article by Angela M. White et al published August 2007 in Animal Behaviour

Reconnecting People to Nature Is a Prerequisite for the Future Conservation Agenda: Response from Swaisgood and Sheppard

Reconsidering habitat associations in the Anthropocene

Reproductive competition and fecal testosterone in wild male giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

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Research Priorities from Animal Behaviour for Maximising Conservation Progress

scientific article

Reserve Size, Conspecific Density, and Translocation Success for Black Rhinoceros

scientific article published in 2008

Scientific approaches to enrichment and stereotypies in zoo animals: what's been done and where should we go next?

article by Ronald R. Swaisgood & David J. Shepherdson published 2005 in Zoo Biology

Seasonal and diurnal dynamics of glucocorticoids and behavior in giant pandas

Seasonal and reproductive variation in chemical constituents of scent signals in wild giant pandas

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Signalling behaviour is influenced by transient social context in a spontaneously ovulating mammal

Site characteristics influence Andean bear natal-den selection in dry forest habitat

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

Social learning in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana africana).

scientific article

Someplace like home: Experience, habitat selection and conservation biology

Sound transmission in a bamboo forest and its implications for information transfer in giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) bleats

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

Stereotypic behaviour predicts reproductive performance and litter sex ratio in giant pandas

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

The Culture of Conservation Biologists: Show Me the Hope!

scientific article published in September 2010

The Value of Ecosystem Services from Giant Panda Reserves

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

The acoustic structure of male giant panda bleats varies according to intersexual context.

scientific article published in September 2015

The face of conservation responding to a dynamically changing world

scientific article

The highs and lows of chemical communication in giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): effect of scent deposition height on signal discrimination

article by Angela M. White et al published 20 March 2002 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

The influence of ambient noise on maternal behavior in a Bornean sun bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus).

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Translocations as experiments in the ecological resilience of an asocial mega-herbivore

scientific article

Vocal behaviour predicts mating success in giant pandas

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Vocal cues to male androgen levels in giant pandas.

scientific article

Vocal discrimination of potential mates by female giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

scientific article

We should not be afraid to talk about fear of failure in conservation

article by Mariah H. Meek et al published February 2016 in Biological Conservation

Withered on the stem: is bamboo a seasonally limiting resource for giant pandas?

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

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