Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective

Authors: Lauren Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology

2024

Review of Environmental and Health Factors Impacting Captive Common Marmoset Welfare in the Biomedical Research Setting

Authors: Monika Burns

Publication/Journal: Veterinary Sciences

Keywords: animal model, husbandry, marmoset, NHP, nonhuman primate, veterinary, welfare

2023

The Four Cs of Modern (Neuro) ethology and Neuroethics: Cognition, Complexity, Conation, and Culture

Authors: Simon Gadbois

Publication/Journal: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals

Keywords: affective neuroscience, cognition, complexity, conation, culture, social neuroscience

2020

The impact of housing environment color on zebrafish anxiety-like behavioral and physiological (cortisol) responses

Authors: Murilo S de Abreu, Ana CVV Giacomini, Rafael Genario, Bruna E dos Santos, Leticia Marcon, Konstantin A Demin, Allan V Kalueff

Publication/Journal: General Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: anxiety, behavior, color, cortisol, zebrafish

2020

The provision of toys to pigs can improve the human-animal relationship

Authors: Míriam Marcet-Rius, Patrick Pageat, Cécile Bienboire-Frosini, Eva Teruel, Philippe Monneret, Julien Leclercq, Alessandro Cozzi

Publication/Journal: Porcine Health Management

Keywords: environmental enrichment, human-animal relationship, play behaviour, positive emotions, strange person test, tail movement

2020

A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research

Authors: A. Calapai, M. Berger, M. Niessing, K. Heisig, R. Brockhausen, S. Treue, A. Gail

Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods

Keywords: acquisition, animal, animal welfare, automated testing, baboons papio-papio, behavioral management, cognitive neuroscience, computerized test systems, cortex, environmental enrichment, experimental, housing, macaca-mulatta, mathematical, monkey, mt neurons, non-human primates, parietal, performance, psychology, receptive-field, representation

2017

Use of Primates in Research: What Do We Know About Captive Strepsirrhine Primates?

Authors: Gloria Fernández Lázaro, Sarah Zehr, Enrique Alonso García

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: ethics, lemur, nonhuman primates, research use, strepsirrhine

2017

The neurobiology of mammalian parenting and the biosocial context of human caregiving

Authors: Ruth Feldman

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: neurobiology of attachment, oxytocin, parental brain, parenting behavior

2016

The social neuroscience of human-animal interaction

Authors: Lisa S. Freund, Sandra McCune, Layla Esposito, Nancy R. Gee, Peggy D. McCardle

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: ethics, human-animal bonds

2016

A review of behavioural methods to study emotion and mood in pigs, Sus scrofa

Authors: Eimear Murphy, Rebecca E. Nordquist, Franz Josef van der Staay

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, emotion, open field, pig, play, vocalisation

2014