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PUBLICATIONS & BOOKS

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." (Jack Kerouac)

Publications (selection)

  1. Zucca P. (2022) Four cognitive-ecological biases that reduce integration between medical and cyber intelligence and represent a threat to cybersecurity, Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments,Volume 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiae.2022.100046

  2. Zucca P, Scagliarini A, Ramma Y, Khan Ali S (2022) Zoonoses - Diseases Naturally Transmitted From Animals to Humans. Frontiers for Young Minds, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.833893

  3. Zucca P, Rossmann M-C, Dodic M, Ramma Y, Matsushima T, Seet S, et al. (2021) What Do Adolescents Know About One-Health and Zoonotic Risks? A School-Based Survey in Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Mauritius, and Japan. Front. Public Health 9:658876. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.6588766  

  4. Cocchi M, Danesi P, De Zan G, Leati M, Gagliazzo L, Ruggeri M, Palei M, Bremini A, Rossmann M-C, Lippert-Petscharnig M, Mansfeld M-D, Deotto S, Leardini S, Gobbo F, Zucca P, De Benedictis P. A Three-Year Biocrime Sanitary Surveillance on Illegally Imported Companion Animals. Pathogens. 2021; 10(8):1047. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10081047  

  5. Baciadonna L, Zucca P and Samour J (2021) Laterality preferences at rest and predatory behaviour of the Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus): An alpha predator of the sky, Laterality,  https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2021.1958831, (1-15)

  6. Zucca P, Rossmann M-C, Osorio JE, Karem K, et al. (2020) The “Bio-Crime Model” of Cross-Border Cooperation Among Veterinary Public Health, Justice, Law Enforcements, and Customs to Tackle the Illegal Animal Trade/Bio-Terrorism and to Prevent the Spread of Zoonotic Diseases Among Human Population. Front. Vet. Sci. 7:593683. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.593683  

  7. Zucca P (2020) The Zoonosecene: the new geological epoch of intensive breeding, of wildlife trade, of antibiotic resistance and of pandemic diseases, following the Anthropocene. Platinum, Sole 24Ore English Edition. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16949.50408/1

  8. Gionechetti F., Zucca P., Gombac F., Monti-Bragadin C., Lagatolla C, Tonin E., Edalucci E, Vitali L.A., and Dolzani L. (2008) Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance and Class 1 Integrons in Enterobacteriaceae Isolated from Mediterranean Herring Gulls (Larus cachinnans). Microbial drug resistance, 14-2, 93-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2008.0803

  9. Baciadonna L., Zucca P., Tommasi L. (2010) Posture in ovo as a precursor of footedness in ostriches (Struthio camelus). Behavioural Processes, 83, 130-133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2009.09.004 

  10. Zucca P, Cerri F, Carluccio A, Baciadonna L. (2011) Space availability influence laterality in donkeys (Equus asinus). Behav Processes, 88(1):63-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.06.012

  11. Zucca P., Baciadonna L., Masci S., Mariscoli M. (2010) Illness as a source of variation of laterality in lions (Panthera leo). Laterality, 16(3):356-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13576501003690025

  12. Zucca P., Palladini A., Baciadonna L., Scaravelli D. (2010) Handedness in the echolocating Schreiber's long-fingered bat (Miniopterus schreibersii). Behavioural Processes, 2010 Jul;84(3):693-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.006

  13. Zucca P., Di Guardo G., Pozzi-Mucelli R., Scaravelli D., Francese M. (2004) Use of computer tomography for imaging of Crassicauda grampicola in a Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. (35), 3: 391-394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11259-005-0057-6

  14. Rogers J.L., Zucca P., Vallortigara G. (2004) Advantage of having a lateralized brain. The Royal Society, Biology letters. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl.), 271:420-422.  https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2004.0200

Books (selection)

  1. Spanjol K, Zucca P. (2022) Biophilia, One Health and Humane Education: mitigating global risk through transformation of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. In Engemann, Kurt J., Lavery, Cathryn F. and Sheehan, Jeanne M.. Volume IV Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity, De Gruyter, 2023. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110731217/html  

  2. Zucca P. (2015) Avian cognition and welfare. In Avian Medicine. Eds J. H. Samour. Colour atlas series, Third Edition. Elsevier Ltd Edinburgh, UK.

  3. Zucca P. Wildlife and Avian Parasitology Cases (2011). In El Sheika H. (ed.), Self-Assessment Colour Reviews in Veterinary Medicine: Parasitology. Manson Publishing.

  4. Zucca P. Wildlife and Avian Medicine Cases (2011). In Samour J. (ed.), Exotic Animal Medicine: Review and Testing. Elsevier Ltd.

  5. Miglino O., Ponticorvo M., Donetto D., Nolfi S., ZUCCA P. (2009) Cooperation in corvids: a simulative study with evolved robot. In Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, pp. 179-188, https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814287456_0016. 

  6. Sovrano V., Zucca P., Regolin L. (2009) Il comportamento degli animali: etologia, cognizione e benessere animale. Carrocci Editore, Manuali Universitari, pp. 396  ISBN 9788843045884

  7. Zucca P., Pozzi-Mucelli R., Gelli D., Delogu M. (2007) Advanced Clinical Anatomy Imaging. In Atlas of Radiology of Birds of Prey. Eds J.H. Samour and J. Naldo. Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd, UK, pp 261-273.

  8.  Zucca P., Delogu M. Cavalli F. (2007) Advanced Diagnostic Imaging. In Avian Medicine. Eds J. H. Samour. Colour atlas series, Second Edition. Elsevier Ltd Edinburgh.

  9. Zucca P., Delogu M. (2007) Parasitic diseases. Arthropods, Protozoa, Helminths. In Avian Medicine. Eds J. H. Samour. Colour atlas series, Second Edition. Elsevier Ltd Edinburgh, UK.

  10. Zucca P., Delogu M., Pozzi-Mucelli R., Cova M., Gelli D. (2007) The Birds of Prey Anatomical Project. DVD of the book “Atlas of Radiology of Birds of Prey”. In Atlas of Radiology of Birds of Prey. Eds J.H. Samour and J. Naldo. Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd, UK. ISBN: 0702028029.

  11. Zucca P. (2002) Anatomy. In Birds of Prey: Health and disease. 3rd Edition. Ed. Cooper J.E., Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp 13-27.

  12. Zucca P., Cooper J.E. (2001) Osteological aspects of the Falcon Wing. In Raptor Biomedicine III. Eds. Lumeij J.T., Redig P.T., Remple J.D., Cooper J.E., Lierz M., Zoological Education Network Inc., Lake Worth (FL), pp 195-199.

  13. Zucca P. (2000) Parasitic diseases. Arthropods, Protozoa, Helminths. In Avian Medicine. Eds J. H. Samour. Colour atlas series. Mosby-Wolfe, London, pp 219-245.

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