Subject: Emotion

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

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Lactation, Maternity, Prenatal issues, Human-animal relationships, Socialization, Stress

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Feeding predictability as a cognitive enrichment protects brain function and physiological status in rainbow trout: a multidisciplinary approach to assess fish welfare

A. Kleiber, J. Roy, V. Brunet, E. Baranek, J.M. Le-Calvez, T. Kerneis, A. Batard, S. Calvez, L. Pineau, S. Milla, V. Guesdon, L. Calandreau, V. Colson

Published in 2024

Scientific article showing that the feeding predictability contributes to cognitive enrichment, offering a way to improve the welfare and immune status of rainbow trout.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Aggression, Aggressiveness, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Stress

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Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behaviour in bumblebees

Matilda Gibbons, Elisa Pasquini, Amelia Kowalewska, Eva Read, Sam Gibson, Andrew Crump, Cwyn Solvi, Elisabetta Versace, Lars Chittka

Published in 2024

Scientific article on behavioral responses in bumblebees to noxious stimulation (application of heat), reporting that bumblebees directed their grooming more frequently towards a noxiously stimulated site, thus demonstrating that they feel pain.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Insects

Keywords:Pain

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Pet and owner personality and mental wellbeing associate with attachment to cats and dogs

Aada Ståhl, Milla Salonen, Emma Hakanen, Salla Mikkola, Sini Sulkama, Jari Lahti, Hannes Lohi

Published in 2023

Scientific article showing the relationship between the personality of cats and dogs and that of their owners, as well as that  between the owner's mental well-being and the animal's undesirable behavior.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Canines, Felines

Keywords:Anxiety, Personality, Human-animal relationships

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Providing elevated structures in the pullet rearing environment affects behavior during initial acclimation to a layer aviary

Allison N. Pullin, Christina B. Rufener, Suzanne T. Millman, John F. Tarlton, Michael J. Toscan

Published in 2024

Scientific article reporting that hens with access to elevated platforms during the rearing phase make better use of the space in laying aviaries when they are first transferred there than those reared on the ground. The latter acclimatize within 1-2 weeks, but continue to make little use of the highest level of the aviary.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Livestock buildings

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°5244 : Souffrance des chiens vivant attachés en permanence

Question: Ms Yaël Menache (Rassemblement National - Somme). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2024

Answer to a question on adapting the decree of October 25, 1982 on the breeding, keeping and possession of animals to improve living conditions for tethered dogs.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Maltreatment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Gut Microbiome Characteristics Of Horses With History Of Cribbing Behavior: An Observational Study

Ana Margarita Arias-Esquivel, Kwang Cheol Jeong, Peixin Fan, Jill Lance, Sally DeNotta, Carissa Wickens

Published in 2023

Scientific article to assess whether the composition of the gastrointestinal microbiota differs in horses receiving a gastric health support supplement or a placebo on the one hand, and between "cribbing" or "non-cribbing" horses on the other. No difference was observed, however, a link was established between cribbing and fecal microbiota composition.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Microbiota, Stress, Behavioural disorders

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Pain Assessment in Goat Kids: Focus on Disbudding

Kavitha Kongara, Preet Singh, Dinakaran Venkatachalam, John Paul Chambers

Published in 2023

Scientific review of pain assessment in kids after disbudding, using physiological and behavioral measures

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Caprines

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

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Fetching felines: a survey of cat owners on the diversity of cat (Felis catus) fetching behaviour

Jemma Forman, Elizabeth Renner, David A. Leavens

Published in 2023

Scientific article showing that, according to cat owners, where cats engage in "fetching" sessions, it is mostly the cats who determine when sessions begin and end and actively influence their owners' play behavior.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Felines

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Cognitive processes, Human-animal relationships

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Feeding management of giraffe towards positive welfare

Sarah Depauw, Leen Verbist, Jeroen Stevens, Marina Salas

Published in 2023

Scientific article using the Five Domains of Animal Welfare model to optimize feeding strategies that promote positive affective states in zoo giraffes. The changes that were introduced increased the animals' pleasure, gastrointestinal comfort and engagement.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Wildlife

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships

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