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Research
Latest papers
A future 'rodentopia'? Imagining a good life for rats and mice used in research (and the humans who work with them).
Laboratory animals · 2026 · first author
Finding Mr. Right: Housing Quality Affects Male Mouse Attractiveness to Females, With Implications for Conservation Captive Breeding.
Zoo biology · 2026 · senior author
Ethological scars? Exposure to multiple negative events over a lifespan may predict abnormal repetitive behaviour in laboratory-housed rhesus macaques.
Biology letters · 2026 · first author
Latest funding
- $358,785
Conventional husbandry and the welfare of laboratory mice: assessing and alleviating negative emotions, pessimistic moods, and cumulative stress
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $18,733
Writing in the Sciences (WITS) Online
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $42,968
Startle reflex apparatus: a flexible system for assessing anxiety, hearing ability and sensory gating in mice
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
25 publications.
A future 'rodentopia'? Imagining a good life for rats and mice used in research (and the humans who work with them).
Mason G, Weary D
Finding Mr. Right: Housing Quality Affects Male Mouse Attractiveness to Females, With Implications for Conservation Captive Breeding.
Anandarajan P, Cai J, Mason G
Ethological scars? Exposure to multiple negative events over a lifespan may predict abnormal repetitive behaviour in laboratory-housed rhesus macaques.
Mason G, Coleman K, McCowan B, Pearl D, Pomerantz O
Assessing laboratory animal welfare: the crucial importance of construct validity.
Mason G
Do housing-induced changes in brain activity cause stereotypic behaviours in laboratory mice?
Kitchenham L, MacLellan A, Paletta P, Patel A, Choleris E, Mason G
Waking inactivity as a welfare indicator in laboratory mice: investigating postures, facial expressions and depression-like states.
MacLellan A, Nazal B, Young L, Mason G
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in "simulated prey" tests.
Dawson LC, Meagher R, Ahloy-Dallaire J, Mason G
Recommendations for Abnormal Behaviour Ethograms in Monkey Research.
Polanco A, McCowan B, Niel L, Pearl DL, Mason G
Where are you from? Female mice raised in enriched or conventional cages differ socially, and can be discriminated by other mice.
Adcock A, Choleris E, Denommé M, Khan H, Levison L, MacLellan A, Nazal B, Niel L, Nip E, Mason G
Hens with benefits: Can environmental enrichment make chickens more resilient to stress?
Ross M, Rausch Q, Vandenberg B, Mason G
Conventional husbandry and the welfare of laboratory mice: assessing and alleviating negative emotions, pessimistic moods, and cumulative stress
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
Keywords: 1) animal welfare; 2) laboratory mice; 3) welfare indicators; 4) affective states; 5) resilience; 6) environmental enrichment; 7) cumulative stress; 8) abnormal behaviour; 9) emotion; 10) mood
Writing in the Sciences (WITS) Online
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
Startle reflex apparatus: a flexible system for assessing anxiety, hearing ability and sensory gating in mice
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
Why is social behaviour in animals adversely affected by barren housing conditions?
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
Cage Washer to Support Diverse Research Programs in a Centralized Animal Facility
Principal investigators: Jones, Nina
Investigating the welfare implications of cage size for mink
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
""Needs,"" ""pleasures,"" or both? Operationalizing ""environmental enrichments"" in terms of their impacts on animal welfare and other aspects of biological functioning
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
Animal Welfare
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
Keywords: CRC
Effect of feeding management on learning of diet selection in dairy heifers
Principal investigators: DeVries, Trevor
Understanding the behavioural mechanisms underlying captive animals' stereotypic behaviour
Principal investigators: Mason, Georgia
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Georgia Mason and Elena Choleris: 3 shared papers
- Georgia Mason and Lee Niel: 2 shared papers
- Lee Niel and Elena Choleris: 2 shared papers
- Jamie Ahloy Dallaire and Georgia Mason: 1 shared paper
- Jamie Ahloy Dallaire and Rebecca Meagher: 1 shared paper
- Georgia Mason and Daniel Weary: 1 shared paper
- Georgia Mason and Alexandra Harlander Matauschek: 1 shared paper
- Georgia Mason and David Pearl: 1 shared paper
- Georgia Mason and Rebecca Meagher: 1 shared paper
- Population Medicine
- Integrative Biology
- Psychology
- Animal Biosciences
- Faculty of Land and Food Systems
- Département des sciences animales
- Animal Science & Aquaculture
Co-authors at University of Guelph, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Elena Choleris
Psychology
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Lee Niel
Population Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2021
David Pearl
Population Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Daniel Weary
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Rebecca Meagher
Animal Science & Aquaculture
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Alexandra Harlander Matauschek
Animal Biosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Jamie Ahloy Dallaire
Département des sciences animales
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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