Evaluating the Reliability of Non-Specialist Observers in the Behavioural Assessment of Semi-Captive Asian Elephant Welfare

Authors: Jonathan L. Webb, Jennie A. H. Crawley, Martin W. Seltmann, Oceane Liehrmann, Nicola Hemmings, U. Kyaw Nyein, Htoo Htoo Aung, Win Htut, Virpi Lummaa, Mirkka Lahdenpera

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural assessment, ethogram, observational study, reliability, stress

2020

Orangutans’ Comprehension of Zoo Keepers’ Communicative Signals

Authors: Guillaume Dezecache, Aude Bourgeois, Christophe Bazin, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Audrey Maille

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, gestures, inter-species communication, medical training, orangutans, speech

2019

Personality types vary in their personal and social information use

Authors: Judith A. H. Smit, Kees van Oers

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: personal information, personality, sampling behaviour, social information, video

2019

Stall architecture influences horses’ behaviour and the prevalence and type of stereotypies

Authors: Clémence Lesimple, Emmanuel Gautier, Haïfa Benhajali, Céline Rochais, Christophe Lunel, Samia Bensaïd, Adala Khalloufi, Séverine Henry, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: horse, housing, stereotypic/abnormal repetitive behaviours, time-budget, welfare

2019

Comparison of male conflict behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), with specific regard to coalition and post-conflict behavior

Authors: Martin Surbeck, Christophe Boesch, Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Catherine Crockford, Gottfried Hohmann, Roman M. Wittig

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: aggression, apes, coalitions, cooperation, grooming, reconciliation

2017

Assessment of anxiety in open field and elevated plus maze using infrared thermography

Authors: Benjamin Lecorps, Heiko G. Rödel, Christophe Féron

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, emotion, infrared thermography, unconditioned fear tests

2016

Attitudes of beef producers to disbudding and perception of pain in cattle

Authors: I. Wikman, A. H. Hokkanen, M. Pastell, T. Kauppinen, A. Valros, L. Hänninen

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, attitude, beef producer, cattle pain, disbudding, human-animal relationship

2016

Ten practical realities for institutional animal care and use committees when evaluating protocols dealing with fish in the field

Authors: S. J. Cooke, A. D. M. Wilson, C. K. Elvidge, R. J. Lennox, N. Jepsen, A. H. Colotelo, R. S. Brown

Publication/Journal: Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Keywords: animal care, atlantic salmon, catch-and-release, conservation, ethics, field research, fisheries, fresh-water fauna, marine & freshwater biology, rainbow-trout, research, sockeye-salmon, stress, telemetry transmitters, welfare, wildlife research

2016

Development of automatic surveillance of animal behaviour and welfare using image analysis and machine learned segmentation technique

Authors: M. Nilsson, A. H. Herlin, H. Ardo, O. Guzhva, K. Astrom, C. Bergsten

Publication/Journal: animal

Keywords: agriculture, behaviour analysis, computer vision, dairy & animal science, house, image segmentation, pigs, ratio of areas, temperature, thermal comfort, veterinary sciences

2015

Perceptions and practices of Finnish dairy producers on disbudding pain in calves

Authors: A. H. Hokkanen, I. Wikman, T. Korhonen, M. Pastell, A. Valros, O. Vainio, L. Hänninen

Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science

Keywords: calf welfare, disbudding-related pain, management practice, producer perception

2015

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