Published in 2023
Scientific review of living conditions, behavior and cognition, and the different approaches to welfare improvement for manatees in zoos.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to environment, Adaptation of the environment to animal, Consciousness, Societal issues, Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationships, Resilience
Published in 2023
Scientific review of the different stages of slaughtering and their possible impacts on animal stress, welfare and meat quality. It reviews the regulations and technological advances that have led to the development of mobile slaughter units, presents a non-exhaustive list of mobile slaughter units currently in use, and sets out the advantages and disadvantages of these mobile units.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Brain integration, Carcass quality, Stress, Livestock farming system
Published in 2023
Systematic literature review to clarify the relationship between the various clinical presentations of laminitis and diet-induced ruminal acidosis. The review failed to prove a link between diet (high levels of rapidly-digested carbohydrates), ruminal acidosis and acute laminitis.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Pain, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on the European Commission's position on a feasibility study to determine the interest and necessity of a positive list of wild and exotic animals authorized to be marketed and kept as pets in the EU.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Animal trade, Societal issues, Population management
Published in 2023
Article on the links between animal welfare at individual and population levels in zoos and aquariums, and how these two levels can be mutually reinforcing or in conflict.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment
Published in 2023
Scientific article proposing three models, including conditioned reinforcement, to study the complex relationships between environments, innate predispositions and learning in captive animals, which can lead to the development of stereotypies.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Behavioural disorders, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Scientific review on insect cognition, focusing on the hypothesis that there is such a thing as a "social brain", i.e. cognitive capacities specific to social species. Most of the research on cognition in insects is done on highly social species, so it is not possible to make comparisons with less social species. It would therefore be necessary to develop specific research programs to address this issue.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords:Cognitive processes, Evolutionary processes
Published in 2022
Scientific paper to identify genetic factors in canine behavior and understand the relationships between dog breeds and the behaviors that define them. Genetic analysis shows that the diversification of canine behavior pre-dates the creation of modern breeds and that canine genetic diversity is associated with the co-expression of neurodevelopmental genes.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Canine
Keywords:Herding dogs, Neurogenesis, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2021
Scientific review presenting the results of the Cetacean Welfare Study's research "Towards Understanding Cetacean Welfare in Zoos and Aquariums". The results include the definition of reference ranges and species-specific values for blood variables and fecal hormone metabolites to assess welfare, information that is available free of charge via an iOS app.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Mammals
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Human-animal relationships, Learning, training, Societal issues, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Scientific article showing that although Portuguese pet reptile owners' knowledge of their animals' behaviour is generally good, they have very little knowledge of their pets' basic needs and that the conditions under which these are kept are often detrimental to their welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Reptiles
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Societal issues, Welfare indicators
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