All/General

Ethical consideration in toxicology

Toxicologists must realize that their important mission ... does not give them an unconditional license to kill as many animals as they wish and hide behind regulatory requirements, testing guidelines and bureaucratic prescriptions for good laboratory practice.

Year Published: 1985Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Zbinden, G. 1985. Ethical consideration in toxicology. Food and Chemical Toxicology 23, 137-138.

Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethology, Welfare and Experimental Variables

Clear discussion and comprehensive review of housing- and handling-related variables affecting research data. Cage size is probably determined more by tradition, economics, and some vague subjective impression about the animal's space requirements. ... The 'queue' effect of treating animals sequentially...

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Fox, M. W. 1986. Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethology, Welfare and Experimental Variables. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.

Ethics of animal welfare in research: The institution’s attempt to achieve appropriate social balance

Physical restraint procedures should be used on awake animals only after alternative procedures have been considered and found to be inadequate. If a restraint will be utilized the animal should be trained or conditioned to the restraining device, using positive...

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Prentice, E. D., Zucker, I. H., Jameton, A. 1986. Ethics of animal welfare in research: The institution's attempt to achieve appropriate social balance. The Physiologist 29, 1&19-21.

Ethology in animal quarters

Everybody dealing with laboratory animals should have elementary knowledge about animal behaviour in order to be able to read the well-being of the animal, changes in its conditions and to adjust his own behaviour towards the animal in an appropriate...

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Meyerson, B. J. 1986. Ethology in animal quarters. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 554(Supplement), 24-31.

Animal introductions: Some suggestions for easing the trauma

General considerations are outlined for the successful formation of new pairs and groups.

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Lindburg, D. G. 1986. Animal introductions: Some suggestions for easing the trauma. Animal Keepers' Forum January, 8-11.

Ethical principles for the maintenance and use of animal in neuroscience research

Maintenance of experimental animals should account for species-specific needs of accommodation, activity, feeding and social interactions to the degree possible [p. 1].

Year Published: 1987Topics: Disease/Experimental ModelAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Zimmermann, M. 1987. Ethical principles for the maintenance and use of animal in neuroscience research. Neuroscience Letters 73, 1.

Learning and the training of farm animals

Habituation attenuates the fear normally associated with novel situations.

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: All/General, Cattle, Pig, Sheep

Citation: Kilgour, R. 1987. Learning and the training of farm animals. The Veterinary Clinics of North America 3, 269-284.

Public concerns for animal in research

One of the major concerns of the public today is the veil of secrecy that surround much of the research and testing with laboratory animals, a situation which creates public suspicion [p. 120]. Finally, the overriding and deepest concern of...

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Clark, J. 1987. Public concerns for animal in research. Laboratory Animal Science 37(Special issue), 120-121.

Reducing pain in laboratory animals

Useful analysis and discussion of legal guidelines.

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Spinelli, J. S. 1987. Reducing pain in laboratory animals. Laboratory Animal Science 37(Speccial Issue), 65-70.

ACUC, who needs it? The investigator’s viewpoint

The author succinctly summarizes the prevailing attitude of investigators toward their research subjects: The investigator, above all, wants to pursue his or her research activities, be they of basic science or clinical nature. The academic and intellectual freedom to pursue...

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Traystman, R. J. 1987. ACUC, who needs it? The investigator's viewpoint. Laboratory Animal Science 37((Special issue)), 108-110.