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Overview

Georgia Mason is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on veterinary science with a specialization in small animals. The scholar has contributed extensively to topics related to animal behavior and welfare studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, human-animal interaction studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, primate behavior and ecology, and animal testing and alternatives.

The following are some recent papers authored or co-authored by Georgia Mason:

  • What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Red Herrings, Fish Pain and the Study of Animal Sentience, 2022, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Conventional laboratory housing increases morbidity and mortality in research rodents: results of a meta-analysis, 2022, BMC Biology
  • Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Hens with benefits: Can environmental enrichment make chickens more resilient to stress?, 2020, Physiology & Behavior
  • Don't use it? Don't lose it! Why active use is not required for stimuli, resources or "enrichments" to have welfare value, 2023, Zoo Biology

Georgia Mason frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Aileen MacLellan
  • Lindsey Kitchenham
  • Emma Mellor
  • Jessica Cait
  • J. Michelle Lavery

Their research is published regularly in various scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • BMC Biology

Georgia Mason's work spans several subfields, prominently Small Animals, Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Ecology. The researcher has a strong focus on interdisciplinary studies connecting animal welfare and behavioral science within veterinary contexts.

Best Publications

  • Stereotypies: a critical review.

    Georgia J. Mason

  • Can't stop, won't stop: is stereotypy a reliable animal welfare indicator?

    G. J. Mason;N. R. Latham

  • Why and how should we use environmental enrichment to tackle stereotypic behaviour

    G.J. Mason;R. Clubb;N. Latham;S. Vickery

  • Species differences in responses to captivity: stress, welfare and the comparative method

    Georgia J. Mason

  • Stereotypic Animal Behaviour: Fundamentals and Applications to Welfare

    Georgia Mason;Jeffrey Rushen

  • Animal welfare: captivity effects on wide-ranging carnivores.

    Ros Clubb;Georgia Mason

  • Why is there no simple way of measuring animal welfare

    G Mason;MT Mendl

  • Frustrations of fur-farmed mink

    Georgia J. Mason;Jonathan Cooper;Catherine Clarebrough

  • From house mouse to mouse house: the behavioural biology of free-living Mus musculus and its implications in the laboratory

    Naomi Latham;Georgia Mason

  • Stereotypies and suffering.

    G.J. Mason

  • Natural behavioural biology as a risk factor in carnivore welfare: How analysing species differences could help zoos improve enclosures §

    Ros Clubb;Georgia Jane Mason

  • Evidence for a relationship between cage stereotypies and behavioural disinhibition in laboratory rodents.

    Joseph P Garner;Georgia J Mason

  • Dissociation in the effects of neonatal maternal separations on maternal care and the offspring's HPA and fear responses in rats

    Simone Macrí;Georgia J Mason;Hanno Würbel

  • Maternal deprivation and the development of stereotypic behaviour

    Naomi R. Latham;G.J. Mason

  • Compromised Survivorship in Zoo Elephants

    Ros Clubb;Marcus Rowcliffe;Phyllis C Lee;Khyne U Mar;Khyne U Mar

  • Play and optimal welfare: Does play indicate the presence of positive affective states?

    Jamie Ahloy-Dallaire;Julia Espinosa;Georgia Mason

  • The humaneness of rodent pest control.

    G.J. Mason;K.E. Littin

  • Stereotypic behaviour in captive animals: fundamentals and implications for welfare and beyond.

    G. Mason

  • Age and Context Affect the Stereotypies of Caged Mink

    Georgia J. Mason

  • How should the psychological well-being of zoo elephants be objectively investigated?

    Georgia J. Mason;Jake S. Veasey

  • Plastic animals in cages: behavioural flexibility and responses to captivity

    Georgia Mason;Charlotte C. Burn;Jamie Ahloy Dallaire;Jeanette Kroshko

  • Frustration and perseveration in stereotypic captive animals: is a taste of enrichment worse than none at all?

    Naomi Latham;Georgia J Mason

  • Do the stereotypies of pigs, chickens and mink reflect adaptive species differences in the control of foraging?

    Georgia Mason;Michael Mendl

  • Stereotypic behavior in Asiatic black and Malayan sun bears

    Sophie Vickery;Georgia Mason

Frequent Co-Authors

Dana L.M. Campbell
Dana L.M. Campbell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Michael Mendl
Michael Mendl University of Bristol
Rupert Palme
Rupert Palme University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Joseph P. Garner
Joseph P. Garner Stanford University
Charlotte C. Burn
Charlotte C. Burn Royal Veterinary College
Elena Choleris
Elena Choleris University of Guelph
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Jonathan J. Cooper
Jonathan J. Cooper University of Lincoln
Neville Pillay
Neville Pillay University of the Witwatersrand
Ian J.H. Duncan
Ian J.H. Duncan University of Guelph

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