Keyword : Animal-based measurement

Advancing Animal Welfare in Zoos through Data Science: Scaling Up Continuous Improvement Efforts

Matyas Liptovszky

Published in 2024

Opinion piece arguing for the transformative potential of data science to advance animal welfare in zoos.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Wildlife

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators

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A new approach and insights on modelling the impact of production diseases on dairy cow welfare

F. Edwardes, M. van der Voort, T.B. Rodenburg, H. Hogeveen

Published in 2023

Scientific article developing a method that uses information from experts to quantify the perceived impact of sub-optimal mobility on the welfare of dairy cows. The wider objective is to quantify the impact of health disorders on animal welfare, and to detect and treat these disorders as early as possible in order to improve animal welfare.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Pain, Living environment, Modeling, Human-animal relationship

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Fetching felines: a survey of cat owners on the diversity of cat (Felis catus) fetching behaviour

Jemma Forman, Elizabeth Renner, David A. Leavens

Published in 2023

Scientific article showing that, according to cat owners, where cats engage in "fetching" sessions, it is mostly the cats who determine when sessions begin and end and actively influence their owners' play behavior.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Felines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Cognitive process, Human-animal relationship

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Feeding management of giraffe towards positive welfare

Sarah Depauw, Leen Verbist, Jeroen Stevens, Marina Salas

Published in 2023

Scientific article using the Five Domains of Animal Welfare model to optimize feeding strategies that promote positive affective states in zoo giraffes. The changes that were introduced increased the animals' pleasure, gastrointestinal comfort and engagement.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Wildlife

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships

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Guidance: Poultry welfare off the farm

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)

Published in 2023

Update of the guide originally published in 2012 by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), on how to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and at slaughter

Document Types: Guides to Good Practice

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Societal issues, Human-animal relationship, Transport

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Does the provision of live black soldier fly and yellow mealworm larvae improve Muscovy duck welfare?

Marta Gariglio, Sihem Dabbou, Manuela Renna, Ilaria Biasato, Sara Bellezza Oddon, Marco Meneguz, Raul Daniel Miazzo, Stefania Bergagna, Elena Colombino, Elisabetta Macchi, Achille Schiavone

Published in 2023

Scientific paper evaluating the effect of fly larvae and mealworm-based feed enrichment on physiological and behavioral indicators of stress and aggression in Muscovy ducks, and on their growth performance.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressiveness, Animal-based measurement, Enrichment, Stress

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Lateralised Behavioural Responses in Livestock to Environmental Stressors: Implications for Using Infrared Thermography to Assess Welfare Conditions

Amira A. Goma, Jashim Uddin, Emily Kieson

Published in 2023

Scientific review of the lateralized behavioral responses of farm animals to environmental stressors, and the association between these responses and the infrared temperature of the external body surfaces concerned, with the aim of improving the use of non-invasive measures in the assessment of animal welfare conditions.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Living environment

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Cognitive tasks as measures of pig welfare: a systematic review

Thomas Ede, Thomas D. Parsons

Published in 2023

Systematic review of the literature to assess the frequency of use and variety in cognitive approaches to the assessment of pig welfare. To this end, it quantifies the different cognitive tasks used and welfare interventions studied in the selected articles, and assesses the frequency with which cognitive task results are in line with treatment effects.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators

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IoT and ML approach for ornamental fish behaviour analysis

K. Suresh Kumar Patro, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Vidya S. Bharti, Arun Sharma, Arpita Sharma, T. Senthilkumar

Published in 2023

Article using machine and deep learning techniques to analyze changes in goldfish behavior following changes in environmental parameters (water temperature and dissolved oxygen).

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Enrichment, Living environment, Stress

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Characterization of social behavior in a group of domestic donkeys (Equus asinus)

Miina Lõoke, Paolo Mongillo, Martina Bortoletti, Simona Normando, Lieta Marinelli

Published in 2023

Scientific article on the distribution aross the day of intraspecific social behaviors in a group of donkeys and characterizing affiliative and agonistic social interactions during periods of peak activity.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Socialization

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