Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: D. W. Laméris, M. Salas, M. Eens, L. Gillespie, N. Staes, J. R. Torfs, J. Verspeek, H. Vervaecke, S. J. Ward, J. M. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Anim Welf

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

The glass is not yet half empty: agitation but not Varroa treatment causes cognitive bias in honey bees

Authors: H. Schluns, H. Welling, J. R. Federici, L. Lewejohann

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: animal behavior, apidae, apis-mellifera hymenoptera, appetitive learning, aversive learning, behavioral sciences, colonies, destructor, formic acid, invertebrate emotion, invertebrate welfare, jacobsoni acari, judgment bias, olfactory conditioning, proboscis extension, proboscis extension reflex, zoology

2017

A preliminary case study of the effect of shoe-wearing on the biomechanics of a horse’s foot

Authors: O. Panagiotopoulou, J. W. Rankin, S. M. Gatesy, J. R. Hutchinson

Publication/Journal: Peerj

Keywords: hoof care, horse, horse racing, horse shoes, welfare

2016

Early human handling in non-weaned piglets: Effects on behaviour and body weight

Authors: Daiana de Oliveira, Mateus J. R. Paranhos da Costa, Manja Zupan, Therese Rehn, Linda J. Keeling

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: growth, handling, human-animal interactions, pigs, psychological development, welfare

2015

Options for managing animal welfare on intensive pig farms confined by movement restrictions during an outbreak of foot and mouth disease

Authors: I. J. East, S. E. Roche, R. M. Wicks, K. de Witte, M. G. Garner

Publication/Journal: Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Keywords: animal welfare, disease management, foot and mouth disease

2014

Influence of environmental conditions and facility on faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in captive pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis)

Authors: C. D. Scarlata, B. A. Elias, J. R. Godwin, R. A. Powell, D. Shepherdson, L. A. Shipley, J. L. Brown

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, captive breeding, environmental enrichment, faecal glucocorticoids, husbandry, pygmy rabbit

2013

Effects of human handling during early rearing on the behaviour of dairy calves

Authors: K. E. Schutz, M. Hawke, J. R. Waas, L. M. McLeay, E. A. M. Bokkers, C. G. van Reenen, J. R. Webster, M. Stewart

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, dairy calves, flight distance, human handling, positive emotions

2012

Integrating microsatellite and pedigree analyses to facilitate the captive management of the endangered Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla)

Authors: J. R. Henkel, K. L. Jones, S. G. Hereford, M. L. Savoie, S. P. Leibo, J. J. Howard

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: founder relatedness, grus canadensis pulla, studbooks

2012

Intertemporal Choice in Lemurs

Authors: J. R. Stevens, N. Mühlhoff

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: intertemporal choice, primate, prosimian, rate maximization, temporal discounting

2012

Motivation to obtain a food reward of pregnant ewes in negative energy balance: Behavioural, metabolic and endocrine considerations

Authors: E. Verbeek, J. R. Waas, M. H. Oliver, L. M. McLeay, D. M. Ferguson, L. R. Matthews

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: behavioural demand, body condition score, energy balance, feeding motivation, hunger, leptin, pregnancy, sheep, welfare

2012

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