Peer Reviewed Publications
Vagell, R. Vagell VJ. Jacobs, RL. Gordon, J. Baden AL. (2019). SMARTA: Automated Testing Apparatus for Visual Discrimination Tasks. Behavior Research Methods.
Selected Published Conference Abstracts
Vagell, R. Edes, AN. Pruetz, JD. (2023). Validating the Use of Saliva Samples To Measure Stress Response in Captive Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.) American Society of Primatologists. Reno, Nevada.
Vagell, R. Andres-Bray, T. Baden AL. (2019). Hand Preference In Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.) When Performing Touchscreen Cognitive Tasks. American Society of Primatologists. Madison, Wisconsin.
Vagell, R. Matters, S. Baden AL. (2019). Do Captive Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.) Contrafreeload or Forage Using Optimal Foraging Theory? Joint Congress of Animal Behavior Society Conference and International Ethological Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Vagell, R. Vagell, VJ. Jacobs, RL. Gordon, J. Baden AL. (2018). Demonstrating Behavioral Manifestation of Trichromacy in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.) Using SMARTA. Animal Behavior Society Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Vagell, R. Vagell, VJ. Jacobs, RL. Gordon, J. Baden AL. (2017). Testing Ruffed Lemurs Color Vision Using Subject Mediated Automatic Remote Testing Apparatus (SMARTA). Animal Behavior Society Conference. Toronto, Canada.
Vagell, R. Vagell, VJ. Tepper, SJ. Avery, IM. Jacobs, RL. Gordon, J. Baden, AL. (2016). Novel Skill Acquisition in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.): Preliminary Data from SMARTA Color Vision Study at Duke Lemur Center. XXVI Joint Congress of the International Primatological Society and American Society of Primatologists. Chicago, Illinois.
Vagell, R. Vagell, VJ. Jacobs, RL. Gordon, J. Baden AL. (2016). SMARTA: Subject-Mediated Automatic Remote Testing Apparatus for Color Vision Discrimination Tasks in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.). Duke Lemur Center 50th Anniversary Scientific Symposium. Durham, North Carolina.
Vagell, R. (2014). Talk To The Hand: Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas) Hand Preference in Gestural Communication. American Society of Primatologists. Decatur, Georgia.
Van Schyndel, AA. & Vagell, R. (2012). Foraging preferences and substrate use in the absence of food availability pressures in three lemur (Lemur catta, Eulemur mongoz, and Eulemur sanfordi) species. Midwest Primate Interest Group Conference. DeKalb, Illinois.