The welfare problems of wide-ranging Carnivora reflect naturally itinerant lifestyles

Authors: Miranda Bandeli, Emma L. Mellor, Jeanette Kroshko, Hafiz Maherali, Georgia J. Mason

Publication/Journal: Royal Society Open Science

Keywords: captivity, carnivora, choice, control, welfare, zoos

2023

Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots

Authors: Emma L Mellor, Heather K McDonald Kinkaid, Michael T Mendl, Innes C Cuthill, Yvonne RA van Zeeland, Georgia J Mason

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, captive breeding, parrots, phylogenetic comparative methods, stress

2021

The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human–Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare

Authors: David J Mellor, Ngaio J Beausoleil, Katherine E Littlewood, Andrew N McLean, Paul D McGreevy, Bidda Jones, Cristina Wilkins

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: affective state, behavioural interaction, biological functioning, environment, human behaviour, humans, other animals, welfare grading, welfare impacts

2020

A Ten-Stage Protocol for Assessing the Welfare of Individual Non-Captive Wild Animals: Free-Roaming Horses (Equus Ferus Caballus) as an Example

Authors: Andrea M. Harvey, Ngaio J. Beausoleil, Daniel Ramp, David J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: feral, Five Domains, free-roaming, horses, welfare assessment, wild, wildlife

2020

Preparing for Life After Birth: Introducing the Concepts of Intrauterine and Extrauterine Sensory Entrainment in Mammalian Young

Authors: David J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: fetal sensory systems, in utero sensory environment, learning, memory, neuroplasticity, sensory development after birth, sensory maturity at birth, trans-natal sensory continuity

2019

Abnormal repetitive behaviours in captive birds: a Tinbergian review

Authors: Emma Mellor, Ben Brilot, Sarah Collins

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal repetitive behaviour, bird welfare, causation, development, evolution, function

2018

An Animal Welfare Risk Assessment Process for Zoos

Authors: S. L. Sherwen, L. M. Hemsworth, N. J. Beausoleil, A. Embury, D. J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: assessment, Five Domains, welfare, zoo

2018

“Feelings and Fitness” Not “Feelings or Fitness”–The Raison d’être of Conservation Welfare, Which Aligns Conservation and Animal Welfare Objectives

Authors: Ngaio J. Beausoleil, David J. Mellor, Liv Baker, Sandra E. Baker, Mariagrazia Bellio, Alison S. Clarke, Arnja Dale, Steve Garlick, Bidda Jones, Andrea Harvey, Benjamin J. Pitcher, Sally Sherwen, Karen A. Stockin, Sarah Zito

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare assessment, conservation welfare, environmental ethics, wild animal welfare, wildlife conservation.

2018

Extending the ‘Five Domains’ model for animal welfare assessment to incorporate positive welfare states

Authors: D. J. Mellor, N. J. Beausoleil

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, assessment framework, five domains model, grading system, positive welfare states, welfare enhancement

2015

Introducing breathlessness as a significant animal welfare issue

Authors: N. J. Beausoleil, D. J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Keywords: affective states, animal welfare, breathlessness, dyspnea, respiration

2015