Subject: Emotion

The Importance of Evaluating Positive Welfare Characteristics and Temperament

Sharmaine L. Miller, James A. Serpell, Kathryn R. Dalton, Kaitlin B. Waite, Daniel O. Morris, Laurel E. Redding, Nancy A. Dreschel, Meghan F. Davis

Published in 2022

Scientific review of physiological and behavioural indicators of positive welfare that could be used to assess the welfare status of therapy dogs, recommending that the individual personalities of the dogs be taken into account.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Canine

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

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Des souris, des vaches, des odeurs et des hommes

Alexandra Destrez

Published in 2022

Article on the importance of olfaction in human-animal relations. Whether the animal is a farm animal, a laboratory animal or a pet, human scents have an emotional impact on animals because of their strong sense of smell.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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The Neurobiology of Behavior and Its Applicability for Animal Welfare: A Review

Genaro A. Coria-Avila, James G. Pfaus, Agustín Orihuela, Adriana Domínguez-Oliva, Nancy José-Pérez, Laura Astrid Hernández, Daniel Mota-Rojas

Published in 2022

Scientific review of the neurobiological causes of behaviours, emotions, memory and learning in animals, and their links to animal welfare

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Learning, training, Brain integration, Memory, Cognitive processes

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Humans and Goats: Improving Knowledge for a Better Relationship

Stefania Celozzi, Monica Battini, Emanuela Prato-Previde, Silvana Mattiello

Published in 2022

Scientific review of human-goat relationships, discussing how they communicate, what factors affect their relationship, and what factors affect human-goat interactions.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Caprines

Keywords: Human-animal relationships, Stress,Welfare indicators

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Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators

Elizabeth S. Paul, William Browne, Michael T. Mendl, Gina Caplen, Anna Trevarthen, Suzanne Held, Christine J. Nicol

Published in 2022

Scientific paper showing that hens kept in living conditions generally viewed as those preferred by a species and individually (as demonstrated by experiments) show greater optimism than those in kept living conditions that are less preferable for both the species and the individual. 

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Living environment, Livestock farming system

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My Fear Is Not, and Never Will Be, Your Fear: On Emotions and Feelings in Animals

Mariska E. Kret, Jorg J. M. Massen, Frans B. M. de Waal

Published in 2022

Scientific article explaining ways that the presence or absence of emotions and feelings in animals can be assessed and recommending multi-methodological approaches to the issue.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Consciousness, Societal issues, Fear, Human-animal relationships

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Music modulates emotional responses in growing pigs

Juliana Zapata Cardona, Maria Camila Ceballos, Ariel Marcel Tarazona Morales, Edimer David Jaramillo, Berardo de Jesús Rodríguez

Published in 2022

Scientific paper showing that piglets have increased emotional responses when listening to music and different affective states depending on the harmonic structure of the music. Music could therefore be used as a form of environmental enrichment.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Cognitive processes, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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The question of animal emotions

Frans B. M. de Waal, Kristin Andrews

Published in 2022

Article summarising current knowledge on animal emotions and feelings and discussing their implications for the ethics of the way we treat animals.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Consciousness, Societal issues, Memory, Metacognition, Cognitive processes, Human-animal relationships

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Comparing the pathology of equine stereotypical behaviours to obsessive-compulsive and related disorder in humans: An exploratory Delphi study

Stephanie Megan Plato

Published in 2022

Scientific paper using a Delphi method to compare equine stereotypic behaviour (ESC) and human OCD looking at neurological, etiological and behavioural aspects, causal factors and welfare effects. It identifies the advantages and disadvantages of having ESCs recognised as OCDs.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords:Anxiety, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Welfare indicators

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Preslaughter handling and slaughter of meat animals

Luigi Faucitano

Published in 2022

Announcement of a book on the slaughter preparation and slaughter of animals for human consumption. After a general chapter on welfare assessment using animal-based indicators, individual chapters are devoted to different species: cattle, fish, horses, pigs, poultry, sheep and non-traditional slaughter species. The book ends with a chapter on mobile slaughter.

Document Types: Scientific work

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Restraint equipment, Human-animal relationships, Weaning, Transport

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