Keyword : Stress

Editorial: Holistic prevention strategies for tail biting in pigs; from farm to slaughterhouse

Richard B. D'Eath, Keelin O'Driscoll, Emma Fàbrega

Published in 2023

Editorial summarizing the articles in a dossier on the prevention of tail biting in pigs. Topics include the identification of different types of tail biting, reducing  particular risk factors, the  settings that encourage biting, and the use of precision tools to spot the onset of biting episodes.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressivity, Pain, Precision breeding, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Societal issues, Stress

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The Well-Being of Companion Animal Caregivers and Their Companion Animals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

Samantha K. Brooks, Neil Greenberg

Published in 2023

Review seeking to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on animal carers and their pets. Pet companionship had advantages, but also disadvantages, for both humans and animals. The authors end by asserting the importance of taking pets into account in emergency preparedness plans.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Canines, Felines

Keywords:Anxiety, Welfare indicators, One Welfare, Human-animal relationship, Stress

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Horses' welfare during transport

R. Vázquez-Díaz, M. E. Ortega-Cerrilla, J. R. Bárcena-Gama, J. E. Ramírez-Bribiesca, P. Pérez-Rodríguez, G. Lombardero- Goldaracena, J. M. Ayala-Rodríguez

Published in 2023

Scientific review examining the factors that affect horse welfare during transport, including vehicle type, driver expertise, transport time, direction the animal faces in the vehicle, injury and disease.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Equines

Key words:Animal adaptation to  the environment, Pain, Stress, Transport

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Sénat : réponse écrite à la question n°07044 : Abandon de chiens et retour aux éleveurs

Question: Edouard Courtial (Oise, les Répbulicains). Answer: French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2023

Answer to a question seeking the views of the Ministry of Agriculture's  on the suggestion that it should be possible to return dogs abandoned soon after adoption to their breeders, rather than putting them into shelters.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords: Adoption,Abandonment, Human-animal relationship, Population management, Stress

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A review of horse welfare literature from 1980 to 2023 with a text mining and topic analysis approach

Beatrice Benedetti, Martina Felici, Leonardo Nanni Costa, Barbara Padalino

Published in 2023

Scientific review describing the changes in  the literature on equine welfare over the past 40 years. The number of publications has increased exponentially over the period. The most common topics dealt with are stress assessment, pain assessment, equine social behavior and human-horse interaction. Positive welfare and the assessment of welfare at slaughter are under-represented.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Equines

Key words: Animal-Human Relationship,Pain, Welfare Indicators, Stress

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Feline Faces: Unraveling the Social Function of Domestic Cat Facial Signals

Lauren Scott, Brittany N. Florkiewicz

Published in 2023

Scientific article documenting the various facial signals produced by cats during affiliative and non-affiliative intraspecific interactions. It demonstrates that cats produce a great number of expressions by combining a set of facial muscle movements in different ways. Affiliative and non-affiliative signals are notably different, and it is possible for humans to distinguish between some of them. 

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Felines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Human-animal relationship, Stress

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Animal board invited review: Quantification of resilience in farm animals

M. Taghipoor, M. Pastell, O. Martin, H. Nguyen Ba, J. van Milgen, A. Doeschl-Wilson, C. Loncke, N.C. Friggens, L. Puillet, R. Muñoz-Tamayo

Published in 2023

Scientific article on the detection and quantification of the responses of farm animals to changes in their environment as a means to classify them individually according to their level of resilience. To this purpose, the authors analyze the use of different modeling approaches to data generation from high-throughput recordings.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Modelling, Resilience, Stress

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Deciphering Avian Emotions: A Novel AI and Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Chicken Vocalizations

Adrian Cheok, Jun Cai, Ying Yan

Published in 2023

Scientific paper on the development of a system based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify different emotional states in chickens on the basis of their vocalizations, including hunger, fear, anger, contentment, excitement and distress, with a view to improving human-animal relationships.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationship, Stress, Vocalizations

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Towards the use of on-farm slaughterhouse

Thierry Astruc, E.M. Claudia Terlouw

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:Animal adaptation to environment, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Brain integration, Carcass quality, Stress, Farming system

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-002480/2023: Ending the systematic docking of pigs

Question: Annika Bruna (ID). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on whether the European Commission is prepared to better regulate living conditions in factory pig farms, so that tail docking becomes the exception.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Pain, Enrichment, Human-animal relationship, Mutilation, Societal issues, Stress

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