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 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:Animal adaptation to 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 measurement, 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 measurement, Consciousness, Societal issues, Personality, Human-animal relationships, Farming systems
Published in 2023
Review intended to characterize dairy and beef farmers' perceptions on the implementation of cattle health and welfare monitoring practices. Most studies were on dairy farmers, for whom the cost of implementation was the main barrier to adopting animal health, welfare and safety practices.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Key word: One Welfare,Societal issues
Published in 2023
Scientific review showing that research on the subject has so far focused more on the benefits of human-animal interactions for the health and welfare of humans than for animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Key words:Risk management, One Welfare, Human-animal relationship
Published in 2023
Scientific review of the impacts of heat stress on the production, fertility, health and mortality of dairy cows, and of the advantages and disadvantages of the various strategies that have been proposed for the selction of heat-tolerant cows.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Risk management, Living environment, Resilience, Robustness
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