Personality in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Temporal stability and methods of assessment

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay Murray, Lisa Holmes, Ellen Williams

Publication/Journal: Personality and Individual Differences

Keywords: elephant, personality, scale, TIPI, welfare

2025

Using qualitative behavior assessment to investigate the effect of tourist presence on the welfare in captive tigers (Panthera tigris) in three tourism facilities in Thailand

Authors: Tanya S. Erzinçlioğlu, Kenny M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, free choice profiling, human-animal interaction, qualitative behavior assessment

2023

Personality and behavioral changes in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) following the death of herd members

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay E Murray

Publication/Journal: Integrative Zoology

Keywords: animal behavior, elephants, herd, mortality, personality, socialization

2021

Impact of maternal stress and nutrition on behavioural and physiological outcomes in young lambs

Authors: J. A. Rooke, G. Arnott, C. M. Dwyer, K. M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, gestation, offspring response, practical application, sheep, stress

2017

A survey of sow management at farrowing in the UK

Authors: S. H. Ison, S. Jarvis, K. M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, farrowing, pain, pigs, sow management, survey

2016

The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig I: biological factors

Authors: K. M. D. Rutherford, E. M. Baxter, R. B. D'Eath, S. P. Turner, G. Arnott, R. Roehe, B. Ask, Sand,, P. e, V. A. Moustsen, F. Thorup, S. A. Edwards, P. Berg, A. B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, birth weight, litter size, mortality, piglet, sow

2013

The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig II: management factors

Authors: E. M. Baxter, K. M. D. Rutherford, R. B. D'Eath, G. Arnott, S. P. Turner, Sand,, P. e, V. A. Moustsen, F. Thorup, S. A. Edwards, A. B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cross-fostering, human-animal interaction, litter size, nurse sow, split suckling

2013

Farm animal welfare: assessing risks attributable to the prenatal environment

Authors: K. M. D. Rutherford, R. D. Donald, G. Arnott, J. A. Rooke, L. Dixon, J. J. M. Mehers, J. Turnbull, A. B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, early life, farming, foetal, gestation, prenatal

2012

Emotionality in growing pigs: Is the open field a valid test?

Authors: Ramona D. Donald, Susan D. Healy, Alistair B. Lawrence, Kenneth M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: azaperone, behaviour, emotionality, open field, pigs, validation

2011

The responses of growing pigs to a chronic-intermittent stress treatment

Authors: Kenneth M. D. Rutherford, Marie J. Haskell, Chris Glasbey, Alistair B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: behaviour, detrended fluctuation analysis, fractal analysis, pigs, stress

2006