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

Cognitive bias tasks: a new set of approaches to assess welfare in nonhuman primates

Authors: Emily J Bethell, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: Nonhuman primate welfare: from history, science, and ethics to practice

Keywords:

2023

A Framework to Assess the Impact of New Animal Management Technologies on Welfare: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing

Authors: Caroline Lee, Ian G. Colditz, Dana L. M. Campbell

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, cattle, cognition, cognitive activation theory of stress, livestock, sheep, virtual fencing

2018

Boredom-like states in mink and their behavioural correlates: A replicate study

Authors: Rebecca K. Meagher, Dana L. M. Campbell, Georgia J. Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, emotional states, environmental enrichment, inactivity, neovison vison, sensation-seeking

2017

Exploring the early social affiliations and behaviour of a captive Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) calf

Authors: Joseph Petraccione, Holly Root-Gutteridge, Dana A. Cusano, Susan E. Parks

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: ethogram, herd behaviour, social bonds, social development

2017

Towards a taxonomy of stereotypic behaviours in the American mink (Neovison vison), a model Carnivore: Homogeneous or heterogeneous?

Authors: Andrea Polanco, Dana L. M. Campbell, María Díez-León, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal repetitive behaviour, american mink, animal welfare, behavioural sequence, ethogram, stereotypic behaviour

2017

Fear and coping styles of outdoor-preferring, moderate-outdoor and indoor-preferring free-range laying hens

Authors: Dana L. M. Campbell, Geoff N. Hinch, Jeff A. Downing, Caroline Lee

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: fear, free range, laying hen, manual restraint, open field, tonic immobility

2016

Location tracking of individual laying hens housed in aviaries with different litter substrates

Authors: Dana L. M. Campbell, Darrin M. Karcher, Janice M. Siegford

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aviary, behavior, hen, individual, litter, welfare

2016

Looking on the bright side of bias—Validation of an affective bias test for laboratory mice

Authors: Dana Marie Graulich, Sylvia Kaiser, Norbert Sachser, S. Helene Richter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affective bias test, animal welfare, emotion assessment, environmental enrichment, laboratory mice

2016

Sleeping tight or hiding in fright? The welfare implications of different subtypes of inactivity in mink

Authors: Rebecca K. Meagher, Dana L. M. Campbell, Jamie Ahloy Dallaire, María Díez-León, Rupert Palme, Georgia J. Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: american mink, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, hiding, inactivity, neovison vison

2013

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