The exploration of consciousness in insects
Published in 2025
Scientific summary compiling evidence that supports the likelihood that insects possess some form of subjective experience.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Insects
Subject: Cognition
A functional framework for a comprehensive study of welfare in fishes
Published in 2025
Study proposing an integrative framework to assess fish welfare, combining physiological, behavioral and affective measurements that allow users to go beyond traditional approaches that focus on biological disorders.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Chickens perceive humans as social buffers and may follow human-given cues: A pilot study
Published in 2025
Study showing that chickens, especially those with positive human interactions, can perceive humans in a beneficial way and associate them with rewarding experiences. It also highlights the importance of taking racial specificities into account to adapt human-animal interactions and improve poultry welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Attenuation of Stress Responses to Human Handling Through Habituation in Goats
Published in 2025
Study showing the importance of habituation in reducing the stress generated by human handling in goats.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Caprines
Measuring minds: Understanding the mental states of dairy cattle in different management conditions
Published in 2025
Review of a symposium on the assessment of how the mental states of dairy cattle (positive emotions and cognitive functions in particular) are affected by management practices. It highlights the behavioral, physiological and cognitive indicators available and the potential of emerging automated on-farm monitoring technologies.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Characterisation of facial expressions and behaviours of horses in response to positive and negative emotional anticipation using network analysis
Published in 2025
Study using network analysis to identify specific behaviors and facial expressions in horses based on their anticipation of a positive or negative experience. These indicators can be used to better assess the emotional state and welfare of equines.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Equines
L’enrichissement du milieu de vie
Published in 2025
Article on environmental enrichment in captive animals. Conditions in captivity restrict the satisfaction of animals' physiological and ethological needs. Lack of stimulation and stressful practices can be detrimental to their welfare and affect the quality of scientific research carried out on these animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Rodents, Poultry
La cognition, pierre angulaire des émotions et du bien-être des animaux
Published in 2025
Article exploring the emotional and cognitive skills of animals, their consciousness and the affects of their psychological activity in order to arrive at the concept of animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Relevance of state-behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare
Published in 2025
Scientific review exploring the dynamic interactions between an animal's state (health, emotions) and behavior. These create positive or negative feedback loops that impact animal welfare. The authors propose adjustment strategies that favor positive affective states. The use of dynamic models incorporating longitudinal data is recommended to improve understanding and achieve sustainable improvements in animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
The neurobiological basis of emotions and their connection to facial expressions in non-human mammals: insights in nonverbal communication
Published in 2025
Scientific synthesis exploring the emotional sensitivity of non-human mammals, manifested in particular by facial expressions associated with limbic system activity. The AnimalFACS tool, adapted from the human Facial Action Coding System, makes the scientific analysis of these facial movements possible for several animal species. This approach helps to improve the understanding and interpretation of animal emotions, facilitating more accurate non-verbal communication between humans and animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Mammals
