Deflighting zoo birds and its welfare considerations

Authors: L. Reese, M. Ladwig-Wiegard, L. von Fersen, G. Haase, H. Will, R. Merle, D. Encke, H. Maegdefrau, K. Baumgartner, C. Thöne-Reineke

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, birds, deflighting, pinioning, wing-clipping, zoo

2020

The development of fault bars in domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) increases with acute stressors and individual propensity: implications for animal welfare

Authors: A. Arrazola, S. Torrey

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, feather growth, gallus gallus domesticus, psychological stress, stress response, welfare indicator

2019

Behavioural and physiological responses of laying hens to automated monitoring equipment

Authors: Stephanie Buijs, Francesca Booth, Gemma Richards, Laura McGaughey, Christine J. Nicol, Joanne Edgar, John F. Tarlton

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, automated monitoring, domestic fowl, preening, thermography

2018

Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses

Authors: Gregory S. Archer, Joy A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light

2017

Quantitative aspects of the ruminating process in giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) fed with different diets

Authors: Dominik Schüßler, Hartmut Greven

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: feeding, giraffe, rumination, tooth wear, zoo diets

2017

The welfare of ducks during foie gras production

Authors: I. Rochlitz, D. M. Broom

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, control of feeding behaviour, foie gras, force-feeding, liver steatosis, mulard duck

2017

Behavioural, brain and cardiac responses to hypobaric hypoxia in broiler chickens

Authors: Jessica E. Martin, Karen Christensen, Yvonne Vizzier-Thaxton, Malcolm A. Mitchell, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, hypobaric hypoxia, low atmosphere pressure stunning

2016

Effects of analgesic intervention on behavioural responses to Low Atmospheric Pressure Stunning

Authors: Jessica E. Martin, Karen Christensen, Yvonne Vizzier-Thaxton, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, broiler, humane slaughter, hypobaric hypoxia, low atmosphere pressure stunning, pain

2016

Multimodal duetting in magpie-larks: how do vocal and visual components contribute to a cooperative signal’s function?

Authors: Paweł Ręk, Robert D. Magrath

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: antiphonal duets, cooperative displays, magpie-lark, multimodal signals, robotic birds

2016

Postnatal growth and age estimation in Scotophilus kuhlii

Authors: Shiang-Fan Chen, Shang-Shang Huang, Dau-Jye Lu, Tsung-Jen Shen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chiroptera, growth curves, hand rearing, lesser asiatic yellow house bat, vespertilionidae

2016