Ethics and Invertebrates: The Problem Is Us

Authors: Jennifer A. Mather

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal ethics, animal welfare, invertebrates

2023

Stress hormone level and the welfare of captive European bison (Bison bonasus): the effects of visitor pressure and the social structure of herds

Authors: Daniel Klich, Rafał Łopucki, Marta Gałązka, Agnieszka Ścibior, Dorota Gołębiowska, Rita Brzezińska, Bartosz Kruszewski, Tadeusz Kaleta, Wanda Olech

Publication/Journal: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Keywords: aggression, cortisol, enclosure, feces, parasitological infestation, wisent, zoo

2021

Establishment and Implementation of an Animal Welfare Decision Tree to Evaluate the Welfare of Zoo Animals

Authors: Lorenzo von Fersen, Dag Encke, Tim Huettner, Katrin Baumgartner

Publication/Journal: Aquatic Mammals

Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare assessment, Antillean manatee, aquatic mammals, bottlenose dolphin, decision-tree, zoo animals, zoo inspection

2018

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 preference to bond? Male prairie voles form pair bonds even in the presence of multiple receptive females

Authors: Tomica D. Blocker, Alexander G. Ophir

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: microtus ochrogaster, monogamy, pair bond, partner preference, selective aggression

2016

Microbiota and probiotics in canine and feline welfare

Authors: Łukasz Grześkowiak, Akihito Endo, Shea Beasley, Seppo Salminen

Publication/Journal: Anaerobe

Keywords: cat, dog, gut microbiota, health, prebiotic, probiotic, veterinary care

2015

Chimpanzees use multiple strategies to limit aggression and stress during spatial density changes

Authors: Luke Mangaliso Duncan, Megan Anne Jones, Mathew van Lierop, Neville Pillay

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal behaviour, aggression, chimpanzees, spatial restriction

2013

Dominance, pair bonds and boldness determine social-foraging tactics in rooks, Corvus frugilegus

Authors: Jolle W. Jolles, Ljerka Ostojić, Nicola S. Clayton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: boldness, corvus frugilegus, dominance, heterogeneity, individual differences, pair bond, personality, producer–scrounger, rook, social foraging

2013

Endocrinology of sociality: Comparisons between sociable and solitary individuals within the same population of African striped mice

Authors: Ivana Schoepf, Carsten Schradin

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: aggression, alternative reproductive tactics, communal breeding, cooperative breeding, dispersal, helper, philopatry, social flexibility

2013