Published in 2026
Fact sheet providing a detailed examination of painful and stressful procedures commonly performed on cattle (identification marking, dehorning or disbudding, tail docking, castration, and teat removal). It describes the biological context, legal requirements, and key points to check during inspections.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Published in 2026
Review examining the mechanisms of musical perception in animals and its effects on their behavior, physiology, and welfare. It highlights potential benefits, including stress reduction, and emphasizes the value of fish as models for studying the evolutionary basis of musical perception and improving animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Published in 2026
A study conducted in the United Kingdom shows that, although shelters generally meet cats’ physiological needs, there is room for improvement in addressing their psychological needs, particularly with regard to housing, handling, and environmental enrichment.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Felines
Published in 2026
Synthesis proposing an experimental framework to study the temporal structure of animal experiences, comparing the “temporal landscapes” of different species based on five experimentally-testable time windows.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Published in 2026
A study showing that goats are able to use the direction of the human voice to locate a food reward.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Caprines
Published in 2026
A scientific article showing that octopuses are capable of locating prey that is hidden from their direct view but reflected in a mirror, and of navigating toward these visually hidden locations that are spatially aligned with the location of the reflected prey. These findings extend the ability to use mirrors to invertebrates, demonstrating that cephalopods can use mirror reflections for spatial navigation.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Invertebrates
Published in 2026
This scientific review lists the behavioral problems observed in lambs in intensive farming systems and their implications for welfare. It focuses in particular on the natural social and feeding behaviors of lambs in order to establish a framework for understanding their behavioral needs, and identifies practical interventions that can improve both lamb welfare and farm performance.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Ovines
Published in 2026
Scientific article examining the behavioral responses of the house cricket when exposed to a noxious stimulus (heat applied to an antenna), an innocuous stimulus (tactile contact with an antenna), or no stimulus at all, under lower- or higher-stress environmental conditions. Grooming behavior was more frequent and lasted longer in response to a painful stimulus than under the other treatments. These results support the existence of flexible and site-directed self-protection mechanisms in Orthoptera, providing evidence for the existence of pain-like states in Orthoptera.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Invertebrates
Published in 2026
Study showing that vibrations vary in different parts of a trailer and affect the balance of transported pigs. No simple relationship between vibration levels and behaviors emerged, though, suggesting that several factors are in operation.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Published in 2025
A study showing that anxiety observed in laboratory mice is highly dependent on their environment. Transferring them to an enriched environment that closely mimics natural conditions rapidly reduces anxious behaviors, highlighting the importance of environmental experiences in the assessment of threats and animal well-being.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Rodents
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