Both feather peckers and victims are more asymmetrical than control hens

Authors: Fernanda M. Tahamtani, Björn Forkman, Lena K. Hinrichsen, Anja B. Riber

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: development, feather pecking, fluctuating asymmetry, laying hen, skeletal traits

2017

Feather-pecking and injurious pecking in organic laying hens in 107 flocks from eight European countries

Authors: M. Bestman, C. Verwer, C. Brenninkmeyer, A. Willett, L. K. Hinrichsen, F. Smajlhodzic, J. L. T. Heerkens, S. Gunnarsson, V. Ferrante

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, clinical scoring, free range, layers, management, poultry

2017

Stealing milk by young and reciprocal mothers: high incidence of allonursing in giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis

Authors: Markéta Gloneková, Karolína Brandlová, Jan Pluháček

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: allonursing, allosuckling, giraffa camelopardalis, milk theft, reciprocity

2016

Variation in food availability mediate the impact of density on cannibalism, growth, and survival in larval yellow spotted mountain newts (Neurergus microspilotus): Implications for captive breeding programs

Authors: Somaye Vaissi, Mozafar Sharifi

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive breeding, endangered species, intraspecific predation, mortality, ontogeny

2016

Filial attachment in sheep: Similarities and differences between ewe-lamb and human-lamb relationships

Authors: Raymond Nowak, Xavier Boivin

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: affiliation, attachment, cognition, comfort, distress, emotion, gentling, human, lamb, mother, oxytocin, sensitive period, stroking, suckling

2015

The risk factors affecting the development of vent pecking and cannibalism in free-range and organic laying hens

Authors: S. L. Lambton, T. G. Knowles, C. Yorke, C. J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cannibalism, free range, laying hens, risk-factors, vent pecking

2015

Morbidity and Mortality of Invertebrates, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals at a Major Exotic Companion Animal Wholesaler

Authors: Shawn Ashley, Susan Brown, Joel Ledford, Janet Martin, Ann-Elizabeth Nash, Amanda Terry, Tim Tristan, Clifford Warwick

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, disease, exotic animal sales, mortality

2014

Tadpole nutritional ecology and digestive physiology: Implications for captive rearing of larval anurans

Authors: Gregory S. Pryor

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amphibian declines, anuran larvae, captive breeding, dietary habits, feeding strategies

2014

Use of dynamic and rewarding environmental enrichment to alleviate feather pecking in non-cage laying hens

Authors: Courtney L. Daigle, T. Bas Rodenburg, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, Janice C. Swanson, Janice M. Siegford

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, feather pecking, laying hen

2014

Biology, behavior, and environmental enrichment for the captive African clawed frog (Xenopus spp)

Authors: Helen Chum, Stephen Felt, Joseph Garner, Sherril Green

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal model, behavior, enrichment, laboratory research, welfare, xenopus, xenopus laevis, xenopus tropicalis

2013