Docking the value of pigmeat? Prevalence and financial implications of welfare lesions in Irish slaughter pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, carcase, economics, meat inspection, pig, tail-biting
2014
Semantic communication in vervet monkeys and other animals
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal communication, human language, linguistics, representation, semantics
2013
Interactions between profit and welfare on extensive sheep farms
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, economics, linear programming, profit, service quality modelling, sheep
2012
Animal welfare and economic optimisation of farrowing systems
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: alternative housing systems, animal welfare, economic optimisation, farrowing systems, linear programming, pig
2011
A pilot investigation of Farm Assurance assessors’ attitude to farm animal welfare as a confounding factor to training in pig welfare outcome measures
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, attitude to animals, farm assurance, inter-observer reliability, pig, welfare outcome
2011
Adverse impact of industrial animal agriculture on the health and welfare of farmed animals
Publication/Journal: Integrative Zoology
Keywords: animal welfare, intensive animal husbandry, selective breeding, stereotypic behavior, stereotypic behaviour
2006
Effects of trait anxiety on performance of socially housed monkeys in a learning test
Publication/Journal: Behaviour
Keywords: behavior, behaviour, cognition, monkeys, social groups, trait anxiety
2005
Investigating Maternal Hormones in Avian Eggs: Measurement, Manipulation, and Interpretation
Publication/Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Keywords: animals, birds/metabolism, female, gonadal steroid hormones/analysis, hormones/analysis, ovum/chemistry, reproducibility of results, sensitivity and specificity. specimen handling, steroids/analysis of variance
2005
Integrative studies of amphibians- from molecules to mating
Publication/Journal: American Zoologist
Keywords: amphibian, coursthip, hormone, mating, molecule, pheromone, reproductive behavior, reproductive behaviour
1998
The practicing veterinarian and animal welfare as a human endeavour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, human factor, veterinary practice
1998