Published in 2024
Article demonstrating that rats are not only able to feel fear, pain and anxiety, but are also capable of empathy. They show prosocial behaviors, helping fellow rats in distress, suggesting that they are capable of imagining the needs of others.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Rodents
Keywords:Learning, training, Consciousness, Memory, Cognitive processes
Published in 2024
Scientific overview exploring environmental enrichment, designed to improve the welfare and cognitive abilities of animals in captivity. Enrichment provides animals with the means to acquire information by interacting with their environment, thereby promoting adaptation. This approach suggests that complex and varied environments are more enriching than simply prolonging exposure to stimuli, even if the former are neutral or slightly negative.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Learning, training, Living environment
Published in 2024
Scientific article confirming that dogs can discriminate between human odors emitted during positive or negative emotions with no other cues. The results also show that olfactory signals of human stress affect dogs' behaviors when approaching a bowl of food placed in an ambiguous location and may affect their learning.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Canine
Keywords: Cognitive processes, Consciousness, Memory, Human-animal relationships,Learning, training
Published in 2024
Scientific paper showing that horses are able to distinguish the facial expressions of joy or sadness humans. This discovery adds to our understanding of the cognitive processing of human facial expressions by horses.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Cognitive processes, Consciousness, Memory, Human-animal relationships,Learning, training
Published in 2024
Article describing horses' visual spectrum, their color preferences and the impact of environmental color choices on their welfare.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords : Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Housing, Living environment, Stress
Published in 2024
Article on the status of current scientific knowledge concerning consciousness and pain in insects, summarizing the definitions of each, the evidence for their presence in insects and the knowledge gaps that prevent a definitive conclusion to be reached, also outlining the current scientific debate on the issue.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords: Consciousness, Pain
Published in 2024
Scientific article illustrating how ethologist Tinbergen's four questions - based on the causality, ontogeny, phylogeny and function of animal behaviors - can help zoo animal research in areas such as sentience, welfare, conservation and species management.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Biodiversity, Population management, Living environment, Evolutionary processes, Behavioural disorders
Published in 2024
Scientific article reporting that hens display increased redness of the facial skin in situations eliciting positive or negative affective states, with high-intensity negative situations resulting in the highest degree of redness. Meanwhile, situations could produce minor changes in immunoglobulin A concentrations. The authors conclude that changes in facial skin redness do indeed reflect variations in the hens' affective states and can be used as a marker when assessing the quality of the human-hen relationship.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Fear, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators
Published in 2024
Scientific study on whether undomesticated Felidae species recognize familiar human voices by exposing them to audio playbacks of familiar and unfamiliar humans using the cats' names and measuring the latency, intensity and duration of the cats' responses. The results suggest that close human contact rather than domestication is associated with the ability to distinguish between human voices, and that less social species may have socio-cognitive abilities similar to those of more gregarious species.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Felines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Human-animal relationships, Socialization, Vocalisation
Published in 2024
Popular science article on the benefits of an AI tool to interpret the complex vocal linguistic system used by chickens. Combined with an analysis of non-vocal cues, the tool would make it possible to understand the birds' emotional states. This interpretation of different chicken vocalizations could lead to improved farming practices and a change in how we view our relationship with animals.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Human-animal relationships, Vocalisation
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