Keyword: Socialization

A Reexamination of the Relationship between Training Practices and Welfare in the Management of Ambassador Animals

S. Martin, G. Stafford, D.S. Miller

Published in 2024

Article proposing a model to improve the welfare of ambassador animals trained in zoos and aquariums. Key concepts include the recognition of choice and control by the animal, use of the most positive and least intrusive interventions possible during training, and a reduction in the use of aversive strategies.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Wildlife

Keywords: Animal mediation, Self-medication, Education, Human-animal relationship, Socialization,Working animals, Learning

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Veal calf welfare and rearing 

Didier Bastien, Magdéléna Chanteperdrix, Virginie Lefoul, Christophe Martineau, Etienne Labussière, Manuel Tourtier

Published in 2024

Article summarising papers on veal calves given at the 74th European Animal Science Congress (EAAP). The presentations discussed work to identify societal expectations, establish the impact of different housing and feeding methods, evaluate changes in antibiotic use and develop tools for assessing biosecurity on farms.

Document Types: Technical review

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Livestock building, Societal issues, Welfare indicator, Housing, Socialization, Livestock system

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The links between positive human interaction and maternal behaviour and welfare of commercial breeding dams (Canis familiaris)

Uri Baqueiro-Espinosa, Paul Donnelly, Victoria McEvoy, Gareth Arnott

Published in 2024

Scientific article showing the positive effect of social enrichment (positive human-animal interactions) during gestation on a bitch's maternal behavior and on stress as measured by capillary cortisol levels.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Canine

Key words:Animal adaptation to environment, Enrichment, Lactation, Maternal, Prenatal, Human-animal relationship, Socialization, Stress

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European Parliament: written answer to question E-003444/2023: Mandatory licences for dangerous dog breeds

Question: Angelo Ciocca (ID). Answer: Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2024

Answer to a parliamentary question on the need to draw up a common European plan to make dog training courses compulsory, with the issue of a possession permit for owners of the most aggressive dogs.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressivity, Education, Risk management, Human-animal relationship, Socialization, Behavioral disorders

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Multi-animal 3D social pose estimation, identification and behaviour embedding with a few-shot learning framework

Yaning Han, Ke Chen, Yunke Wang, Wenhao Liu, Zhouwei Wang, Xiaojing Wang, Chuanliang Han, Jiahui Liao, Kang Huang, Shengyuan Cai, Yiting Huang, Nan Wang, Jinxiu Li, Yangwangzi Song, Jing Li, Guo-Dong Wang, Liping Wang, Yaping Zhang, Pengfei Wei

Published in 2024

Scientific article presenting a computer tool for quantifying subtle animal social behaviors in fields such as neuroscience and ecology

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

Key words:Precision breeding, Socialization

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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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Review of the influence of farrowing and lactation housing and positive human contact on sow and piglet welfare

Paul H. Hemsworth, Alan J. Tilbrook, Rutu Y. Galea, Megan E. Lucas, Kirsty L. Chidgey, Lauren M. Hemsworth

Published in 2023

Scientific review offering a critical assessment of the scientific literature on the implications of two important determinants of sow and piglet welfare: housing and human contact.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Societal issues, Enrichment, Lactation, Housing, Maternal, Living environment, Human-animal relationship, Socialization, Stress,  Farming system, Behavioral disorders

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Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 - Social management

Patricia Carulla, Arantxa Villagrá, Fernando Estellés, Isabel Blanco-Penedo

Published in 2023

Scientific review of different social management strategies in dairy calf rearing taking account of three animal welfare domains: biological functioning and animal health, affective states or cognitive judgment, and natural way of life. The main problems identified concern social housing with conspecifics, separation from the mother, and human-animal interactions. The authors stress the need to standardize good socialization practices for dairy calves.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Enrichment, Housing, Maternal, Human-animal relationships, Socialization, Stress

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Effects of improved early-life conditions on health, welfare, and performance of pigs raised on a conventional farm

S. Gavaud, K. Haurogné, A. Buchet, I. Garcia Vinado, M. Allard, A. Lehébel, M. Leblanc-Maridor, J.M. Bach, C. Belloc, B. Lieubeau, J. Hervé

Published in 2023

Scientific paper to examine the effects of the complete elimination of painful procedures and of reducing weaning stressors in the living conditions of piglets on a commercial farm. This form of management resulted in improved innate immunity at weaning, fewer and less severe body lesions but more tail lesions than in the control pigs.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressiveness, Castration, Mutilation, Weaning, Socialization, Sterilization, Stress

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