Keywords: Stress

Scientific article on the value of qualitative behavioral assessment to evaluate the welfare of farmed salmon. It aims to assess the effectiveness of QBA in measuring changes in the emotional behavior of salmon following a stressful event.

Expert opinion providing recommendations for improvements to   the welfare of farmed fish at the time of slaughter. It highlights the fish sentience, recommends effective stunning methods, and proposes rules to reduce stress and suffering before slaughter. It recommends a legal requirement for inspection , the use of video surveillance on slaughter sites, tighter controls and sanctions, and better management of voluntary code standards.

Scientific review of the evidence that insects feel pain. It studies behavioral indicators of pain, the evolution of major cognitive capacities, sensory systems and decision-making flexibility in insects.

Answer to a question concerning France's position on the differences in the application of the regulations on the transport of live animals within the European Union and the action it intends to take at European level to ensure respect for animal welfare.

Answer to a question on whether the European Commission intends to ban the rearing of fast-growing broiler strains and support small farms that rear hardier breeds of chickens.

Scientific review of the relationship between hemispheric lateralization and behavior in animals. Experiments have shown an association between right-limb preference and positive cognitive bias, and left-limb preference and negative cognitive bias. Animals with weak lateralization tend to be more stressed, fearful and aggressive than those with strong lateralization.

Scientific article proposing a model for automatic video recognition of aggressive behavior in group-housed pigs, with an accuracy rate of 94.8%.

Second edition of a reference tool for welfare-based certification of aquaculture facilities. It analyzes current welfare requirements as part of the basic farming standards of seven international seafood certification programs.

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.

Scientific article using modelling to assess production losses due to heat stress in two different greenhouse gas emission scenarios. Depending on emission levels, economic losses vary between 9.8% and 3 to 7% of the value of beef and milk production worldwide in 2005. These results underline the importance of putting adaptation measures place in to combat heat stress if we are to ensure global food security.