Measuring animal welfare: What can cognition contribute?
In this review, we explore a variety of techniques that are currently available to investigate the welfare of non-human animals (referred to from now on as animals) with a particular focus on studies of animal cognition. We consider some of the more traditional measures of animal welfare: biological function, physiology and inference, and discuss different […]
Welfare assessment of horses: the AWIN approach
The EU-funded Animal Welfare Indicators (AWIN) research project (2011–2015) aimed to improve animal welfare through the development of practical on-farm animal welfare assessment protocols. The present study describes the application of the AWIN approach to the development of a welfare assessment protocol for horses (Equus caballus). Its development required the following steps: (i) selection of […]