Published in 2023
Scientific review summarizing the behavioral and physiological controls used by cattle to manage heat exchange by radiation, convection, conduction and evaporation between the body and the environment, and thus regulate their temperature in hot conditions.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific review setting out the history of the scientific study of animal welfare, and proposing that scientists in this field should specify the definition of animal welfare on which they base their work, the level at which their assessment is carried out, the assumptions they rely on to measure welfare, and the period on which they focus, in order to enable comparison between studies.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Scientific article on a method to detect sheep behavior based on deep learning. It recognizes six types of sheep behavior, three corresponding to normal physiological activities (standing, feeding and lying down) and three behaviors considered to be disruptive (attacking, biting and climbing) that require immediate action from the farmer.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Ovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Scientific review highlighting the fact that the usual animal welfare paradigms do not apply to animals in zoos, particularly when the animals are undergoing veterinary treatment. In such circumstances, the animals' physiology and behavior are deregulated, and freedom of choice and comfort are limited. The authors propose that a distinction should be made between the state of well-being experienced by the animal (well-being) and the societal management of animal welfare (welfare), and to base the wefare management of zoo and aquarium animals on preventive medicine.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Wildlife, Fish
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Systematic literature review identifying the behavioral and yield parameters of cows that are the best indicators of lameness and calculating the changes in them during lameness episodes. They include time taken to feed, number of lying periods, time taken to lie down, time spent lying down, and milk production. The values of all these parameters are significantly altered in the event of lameness, and could be used to detect lameness automatically.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Precision farming, Welfare indicators
Published in 2023
Scientific review of positive welfare indicators in the main poultry species and their link with sustainable farm management. Indicators include exploration, dust baths, nest building, perching, and swimming (for waterfowl).
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators
Published in 2023
Scientific review of animal psychology, including the importance of giving animals choice and control over their environment to improve their welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Consciousness, Societal issues, Enrichment, Living environment, Cognitive processes, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Article defining animal personality, reviewing scientific knowledge on the subject, and setting out the pros and cons of taking personality into account in livestock farming, for both farmers and animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Societal issues, Personality, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system
Published in 2022
Book offering a comprehensive review of animal welfare and the law. It explores the biological basis for the consideration of animals within a moral framework and traces changes in how we conceptualize animal welfare. It takes a detailed look at the welfare issues associated with many different uses of animals. It includes recent issues such as climate change, pandemics and antimicrobial resistance.
Document Types: Scientific work
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, All animals
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Enrichment, Environment, Euthanasia, Brain integration, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system, Transport
Published in 2023
Scientific article studying the impact of environmental enrichment on the cognitive abilities of rainbow trout as a model aquaculture species. Using an operant conditioning device, after an acquisition phase in which the fish learned to discriminate between two colors, they all successfully completed four inversion learning tasks, demonstrating the cognitive flexibility of rainbow trout. They all passed the generalization task. Fish raised in an enriched environment performed better in the acquisition phase and in inversion learning.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords: Learning, training, Enrichment, Memory, Cognitive processes
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