Considering generalizability: A lesson from auditory enrichment research on zoo animals

Authors: Nicola Khan, Claudia Wascher

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: applied animal behavior, auditory enrichment, captive settings, environmental enrichment, reproducibility

2021

Sex segregation affects exploratory and social behaviors of zebrafish according to controlled housing conditions

Authors: Suelen Mendonça Soares, Karina Kirsten, Aline Pompermaier, Victoria Costa Maffi, Gessi Koakoski, Maurício Woloszyn, Leonardo José Gil Barcellos

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: chemical cue, gender, novel tank test, structural environmental enrichment, visual cue

2020

How our approaches to assessing benefits and harms can be improved

Authors: E. S. Sena, G. L. Currie

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, benefit, experimental validity, harm, laboratory research, meta-research

2019

Improving quality of science through better animal welfare: the NC3Rs strategy

Authors: M. J. Prescott, K. Lidster

Publication/Journal: Lab Animal

Keywords: *cognitive bias, emotion, facial expressions, impact, models, mouse, rat grimace scale, refinement, responses, system, veterinary sciences

2017

Pain and Laboratory Animals: Publication Practices for Better Data Reproducibility and Better Animal Welfare

Authors: L. Carbone, J. Austin

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: activity, critical-care, experimental surgical-procedures, killer-cell, liver-transplantation, metastatic colonization, multidisciplinary sciences, neuropathic pain, posterior parietal, reporting guidelines, spinal-cord-injury, systematic reviews

2016

Use of spontaneous behaviour measures to assess pain in laboratory rats and mice: How are we progressing?

Authors: Alexandra L. Whittaker, Gordon S. Howarth

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: acute pain, behaviour, chronic pain, mice, pain assessment, rats, welfare

2014

Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology

Authors: Rocchini, D; Neteler, M.

Publication/Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Keywords: ecology, four freedoms, open source code

2012

Development of approach and handling tests for the assessment of reactivity to humans of sows housed in stall or in group

Authors: Caroline Clouard, Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün, Nicolas Devillers

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural test, consistency, human-animal relationship, reliability, sows, welfare

2011

Environmental standardization: cure or cause of poor reproducibility in animal experiments?

Authors: S. Helene Richter, Joseph P. Garner, Hanno Würbel

Publication/Journal: Nature Methods

Keywords: animal experiments, environmental standardization, methodology

2009

Investigating Maternal Hormones in Avian Eggs: Measurement, Manipulation, and Interpretation

Authors: T.G. Groothuis, N. Engelhardt

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