Current Research Projects
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My dissertation research investigates how tail docking female sheep impacts key social relationships from birth through their first pregnancy, specifically, her relationship with her:
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Mother​
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Peers and siblings
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Sexual partner
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Own lambs
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In addition to social implications, I am taking a holistic approach to evaluate the merits and pitfalls of tail docking by studying its influence on:
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Wound progression
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Suckling behavior
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Disease risk
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Chronic pain
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Parturition pain
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Pain sensitivity of offspring
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Other projects:
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​Developed a methodology for estimating animal location from non-overhead video (see publications)
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Validation of a novel real-time location system to track animal behavior
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Classification of lying and standing behavior using accelerometer data & machine learning
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