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What the literature tells us about score sheet design

Score sheets are an essential tool of animal welfare. They allow transparent assessments to be made of animal health and behavior during animal experiments and they define interventions when deviations from normal status are detected. As such, score sheets help...

Year Published: 2016Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Bugnon, P., Heimann, M., Thallmair, M. 2016. What the literature tells us about score sheet design. Laboratory Animals 50(6), 414-417.

Humane Endpoints website huge success in Spain and the rest of the world

The Humane Endpoints website (https://www.humane-endpoints.info/) provides information and training modules on how to recognize humane endpoints in laboratory animals. This helps to prevent further distress in the animals by removing the animals from the experiment (e.g. euthanizing the animals) or...

Year Published: 2017Topics: Humane EndpointAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Kliphuis, S. 2017. Humane Endpoints website huge success in Spain and the rest of the world. Laboratory Animals 51(2), 218-219.

Report from the 2017 Annual SGV (Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association ) Meeting

The Scientific Committee of the Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde, SGV) reports on the Annual SGV Meeting held on 28 and 29 November 2017, at Technopark, Zürich, Switzerland. Feedback after the 2016 meeting and recent developments...

Year Published: 2018Topics: Euthanasia, Humane Endpoint, Husbandry & Management, Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Deurinck, M., Schindler, S., Bugnon, P. et al. 2018. Report from the 2017 Annual SGV (Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association ) Meeting. Laboratory Animals 52(2), 211-213. [Meeting Report]

Adaptation of the animal welfare assessment grid (AWAG) for monitoring animal welfare in zoological collections

Animal welfare monitoring is an essential part of zoo management and a legal requirement in many countries. Historically, a variety of welfare audits have been proposed to assist zoo managers. Unfortunately, there are a number of issues with these assessments,...

Year Published: 2017Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Justice, W. S. M., O'Brien, M. F., Szyszka, O. et al. 2017. Adaptation of the animal welfare assessment grid (AWAG) for monitoring animal welfare in zoological collections. Veterinary Record 181(6), 143.

What can kinematics tell us about the affective states of animals?

An animal's welfare state is intrinsically linked to its affective state. Evidence suggests that sentient, conscious animals can experience a range of affective states, such as pain, fear or boredom as well as positive affects like joy, curiosity, satiation or...

Year Published: 2017Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Guesgen, M. J., Bench, C. 2017. What can kinematics tell us about the affective states of animals? Animal Welfare 26( 4), 383-397.

Using technology to monitor and improve zoo animal welfare

While the international zoological community is committed to enhancing the welfare of individual animals, researchers have yet to take full advantage of the tools available for non-invasively tracking behavioural and physiological indicators of welfare. We review technology currently being applied...

Year Published: 2016Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Whitham, J. C., Miller, L. J. 2016. Using technology to monitor and improve zoo animal welfare. Animal Welfare 25(4), 395-409.

‘More than a feeling’: An empirical investigation of hedonistic accounts of animal welfare

Many scientists studying animal welfare appear to hold a hedonistic concept of welfare -whereby welfare is ultimately reducible to an animal's subjective experience. The substantial advances in assessing animal's subjective experience have enabled us to take a step back to...

Year Published: 2018Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Robbins, J., Franks, B., von Keyserlingk, M. A. G. 2018. ‘More than a feeling': An empirical investigation of hedonistic accounts of animal welfare. PLOS ONE 13(3), e0193864.

Alopecie par grattage (trichomania ou trichotillomania)

Suggests the term trichotillomania .

Year Published: 1889Topics: Abnormal/Problematic BehaviorAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Hallopeau, H. 1889. Alopecie par grattage (trichomania ou trichotillomania). Annales de Dermatologie et de Syphiligraphie 10, 440-441.

Literary fiction influences attitudes toward animal welfare

Literary fiction has been credited with considerable power to improve attitudes toward outgroups. It was even argued that it has been an important factor behind the global decline of violence against various minorities in the last centuries. Could it also...

Year Published: 2016Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Małecki, W., Pawłowski, B., Sorokowski, P. 2016. Literary fiction influences attitudes toward animal welfare. PLOS ONE 11(12), e0168695.

The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique

The wages of inhumanity are paid in ambiguous or otherwise unsatisfactory experimental results. The authors introduce the concept of the 3 Rs, i.e. Replacement, Reduction, Refinement. Desirable as replacement is, it would be a mistake to put all our humanitarian...

Year Published: 1959Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Russell, W. M. S. , Burch, R. L. 1959. The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique. Methuen & Co., London, UK.