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

By Bits and Pieces: The Contributions of Zoos and Aquariums to Science and Society via Biomaterials

Authors: David M Powell, Theodore G Meyer, Mary Duncan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: education, genetics, health, microbiome, physiology, research, students

2023

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 Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal welfare

2021

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

Attitudes of veterinary students in Croatia toward farm animal welfare

Authors: Ostovi,, M., Mesi,, Miku,, T., Matkovi,, K., Pavi,

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, attitudes, croatia, farm animals, survey, veterinary students

2016