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Heather J. B. Brooks

Selected Publications

Public perception of animal care facilities through the use of big data

2025

Brooks, H. J. B., & Freeberg, T. M. (2025). Comparative support for the social complexity hypothesis in the calls of two closely related species – Tufted Titmice Baeolophus bicolor and Black-crested Titmice B. atricristatus. Ibis.

Whitten, C. J., Kelly, J., Gillespie, A. L., Brooks, H. J. B., Hooker, M. K., Radford, A., Hennon, L. M., Kilgore, B. J., Singamaneni, Y. B., Schulz, K., Burghardt, G. M., & Cooper, M. A. (2025). From play date to stress fate: Juvenile social play rescues stress-induced changes in adult social behavior. Developmental Psychobiology, 67(1):e70020.

2024

Brooks, H. J. B. (2024). Monkeying around on Twitter (now X): How big data and social media can be harnessed by zoos and other animal care facilities to examine public opinion trends. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, 12(3): 185–194.

Brooks, H. J. B., & Freeberg, T. M. (2024). Single-species and multi-species playbacks elicit asymmetrical responses within mixed-species chickadee, titmouse, and nuthatch flocks. Ethology, 130(6): e13459.

2023

Brooks, H. J. B. & Burghardt, G. M. (2023). A review of interspecific social play among nonhuman animals. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 151:105232.

2020

Miller, L. J., Luebke, J. F., Matiasek, J., Granger, D. A., Razal, C., Brooks, H. J. B., & Maas, K. (2020). The impact of in-person and video-recorded animal experiences on zoo visitors' cognition, affect, empathetic concern, and conservation intent. Zoo Biology. 39(6):367-373.

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