Publications
Sharing findings with the scientific community
Szott, I.D., et. al (in prep) Ratting on wildlife crime: Training African giant pouched rats to detect illegally smuggled wildlife. Invited submission to Frontiers in Conservation Science
ERI Howarth, Szott, I.D., CL Witham, CS Wilding, EJ Bethell Genetic polymorphisms in the serotonin, dopamine and opioid pathways influence social attention in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) Plos one 18 (8), e0288108
Howarth, E.R.I., Kemp, C., Thatcher, H.R., Szott, I.D. Developing and validating attention bias tools for assessing trait and state affect in animals: A worked example with Macaca mulatta. Applied Animal Behaviour Science - 20 citations
Szott, I.D., Pretorius, Y., Ganswindt, A., Koyama, N. Normalized difference vegetation index, temperature and age affect faecal thyroid hormone concentrations in free-ranging African elephants. Conservation Physiology - 6 citations
Szott, I.D. The Impact of Wildlife Tourism on Elephants, Loxodonta Africana, in South Africa. PhD Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University
Szott, I.D., Pretorius, Y., Ganswindt, A., Koyama, N. Physiological stress response of African elephants to wildlife tourism in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. Wildlife Research - 20 citations
Szott, I.D., Pretorius, Y., Koyama, N. Behavioural changes in African elephants in response to wildlife tourism. Journal of Zoology - 27 citations
Szott, I.D., Koyama, N. Safari tourism may make elephants more aggressive – but it’s still the best tool for conservation. The Conversation (www.theconversation.com)
Szott, I.D. The Effect of Genotype on Attention Bias in Rhesus Macaques, Macaca mulatta, as a welfare indicator. MPhil Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University - 2 citations