Investigating temporary acyclicity in a captive group of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Relationship between management, adrenal activity and social factors

Authors: K. L. Edwards, J. Trotter, M. Jones, J. L. Brown, H. W. Steinmetz, S. L. Walker

Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, birth synchrony, central mechanisms, chemical communication, dominance status, endocrinology & metabolism, enzyme immunoassay, estrous synchrony, glucocorticoids, loxodonta-africana elephants, management, oestrous synchrony, ovarian activity, reproduction, reproductive cyclicity, temporary acyclicity, zoo elephants

2016

Invited review: Changes in the dairy industry affecting dairy cattle health and welfare

Authors: H. W. Barkema, M. A. G. von Keyserlingk, J. P. Kastelic, Tjgm Lam, C. Luby, J. P. Roy, S. J. LeBlanc, G. P. Keefe, D. F. Kelton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science

Keywords: activity-monitoring-system, agriculture, antimicrobials, automated calf feeder, automated milking system, automatic, avium subspecies paratuberculosis, biosecurity, clinical mastitis, dairy & animal science, farm-animal, food science & technology, genome-wide association, herd size, immune-response traits, level risk-factors, milking systems, somatic-cell score, viral diarrhea virus, welfare

2015

Willingness of Dutch broiler and pig farmers to convert to production systems with improved welfare

Authors: É Gocsik, I. A. van der Lans, Agjm Oude Lansink, H. W. Saatkamp

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, barriers to adoption, broiler production, contingent valuation, farmers' decision-making, pig production

2015

Mating status and kin recognition influence the strength of cannibalism

Authors: Whitney Parsons, Wenborui Zhong, Volker H. W. Rudolf

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: confused flour beetle, filial cannibalism, kin recognition, mating status, tribolium confusum

2013

Individual Personality and the Spatial Distribution of Groups of Grazing Animals: An Example with Sheep

Authors: A. M. Sibbald, H. W. Erhard, J. E. McLeod, R. J. Hooper

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: exploration test, grazing, minimum convex hull area, nearest neighbour distance, sheep, shy–bold continuum

2009

Use of thermography to screen for subclinical bumblefoot in poultry

Authors: C. S. Wilcox, J. Patterson, H. W. Cheng

Publication/Journal: Poultry Science

Keywords: bumblefoot, chicken, infection, thermography, welfare

2009