Scientific evaluation of animal emotions: Brief history and recent New Zealand contributions

Authors: N. J. Beausoleil, R. B. Stratton, M. J. Guesgen, M. A. Sutherland, C. B. Johnson

Publication/Journal: Journal of New Zealand Studies

Keywords: dairy calves, electroencephalographic, fetal, halothane, interdisciplinary, lambs, pain, play-behavior, positive welfare states, rearing substrate, responses, sentience, social sciences

2016

Training bottlenose dolphins to overcome avoidance of environmental enrichment objects in order to stimulate play activities

Authors: Márcia P. Neto, Miguel Silveira, Manuel E. dos Santos

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, bottlenose dolphin, environmental enrichment, operant conditioning, play-behavior

2016

Pair housing and enhanced milk allowance increase play behavior and improve performance in dairy calves

Authors: M. B. Jensen, L. R. Duve, D. M. Weary

Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science

Keywords: group housing, milk feeding, performance, play-behavior, welfare

2015

Indicators of positive and negative emotions and emotional contagion in pigs

Authors: Inonge Reimert, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, Bas Kemp, T. Bas Rodenburg

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: emotional contagion, empathy, pigs, play-behavior, positive emotions

2013

Play behavior as an indicator of animal welfare: Disbudding in dairy calves

Authors: Erin M. Mintline, Mairi Stewart, Andrea R. Rogers, Neil R. Cox, Gwyneth A. Verkerk, Joseph M. Stookey, James R. Webster, Cassandra B. Tucker

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, cattle, dairy calf, disbudding, pain, play-behavior

2013

Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)

Authors: Morten Tønnessen

Publication/Journal: Sign Systems Studies

Keywords: cat play, cruelty play, human play, play behaviour, play-behavior, social morality, umwelt

2009

Play behaviour in nonhuman animals and the animal welfare issue

Authors: Ana Flora Sarti Oliveira, André Oliveira Rossi, Luana Finocchiaro Romualdo Silva, Michele Correa Lau, Rodrigo Egydio Barreto

Publication/Journal: Journal of Ethology

Keywords: animal well-being, play behaviour, play-behavior, welfare

2009

Revisiting Play Elements and Self-Handicapping in Play: A Comparative Ethogram of Five Old World Monkey Species

Authors: Milada Petrů, Marek Špinka, Veronika Charvátová, Stanislav Lhota

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: guenons, langurs, play-behavior, primates, signaling

2009

When do octopuses play? Effects of repeated testing, object type, age, and food deprivation on object play in Octopus vulgaris

Authors: Michael J. Kuba, Ruth A. Byrne, Daniela V. Meisel, Jennifer A. Mather

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: cognition, invertebrates, octopus, play-behavior

2006

Juvenile farmed mink (Mustela vison) with additional access to swimming water play more frequently than animals housed with a cylinder and platform, but without swimming water

Authors: C.M. Vinke, J. van Leeuwen, B.M. Spruijt

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, coping capacity, enrichment, mink, needs, play behaviour, play-behavior

2005