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From the individual to the population–and back again? Emphasising the role of the individual in animal welfare science

Authors: Sophie Helene Richter, Sara Hintze

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal personality, animal welfare, inter-individual differences, welfare assessment

2019

Provision of a resource package reduces feather pecking and improves ranging distribution on free-range layer farms

Authors: Isabelle C. Pettersson, Claire A. Weeks, Christine J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, enrichment, feather pecking, laying hens, range use, welfare

2017

Looking on the bright side of bias—Validation of an affective bias test for laboratory mice

Authors: Dana Marie Graulich, Sylvia Kaiser, Norbert Sachser, S. Helene Richter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affective bias test, animal welfare, emotion assessment, environmental enrichment, laboratory mice

2016

Social buffering in a bird

Authors: Joanne Edgar, Suzanne Held, Elizabeth Paul, Isabelle Pettersson, Robbie I'Anson Price, Christine Nicol

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: bird, chicken, empathy, maternal, social buffering, socially mediated arousal

2015

Understanding of human communicative motives in domestic dogs

Authors: Helene Pettersson, Juliane Kaminski, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: communicative motive, competition, cooperation, domestic dog, pointing gesture

2011

Variation in stress reactivity affects cage-induced stereotypies in female CD-1 (ICR) mice

Authors: Anna Katarina J. Engel, Alexandra N. Gross, S. Helene Richter, Jonas Rommen, Chadi Touma, Hanno Würbel

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, cd-1, corticosterone, hpa response, mouse, stereotypy, stress, welfare

2011

Environmental standardization: cure or cause of poor reproducibility in animal experiments?

Authors: S. Helene Richter, Joseph P. Garner, Hanno Würbel

Publication/Journal: Nature Methods

Keywords: animal experiments, environmental standardization, methodology

2009

A note on reward-related behaviour and emotional expressions in farmed silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes)–Basis for a novel tool to study animal welfare

Authors: Randi O. Moe, Morten Bakken, Silje Kittilsen, Helene Kingsley-Smith, Berry M. Spruijt

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, conditioned learning, emotions, fur animals, positive welfare, predictability, reward-related behaviour, stereotypies

2006

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