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Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare – Third Edition
Description of the species-typical and abnormal behavior of farm animals. Wool-pulling is generally performed by the most dominant sheep and is directed at subordinates. The sheep which receive most wool-pulling are usually those which are lowest in the social hierchy...
Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General, Bird, Chicken, Sheep
Citation: Fraser, A. F. , Broom, D. M. 1990. Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare - Third Edition. Bailli?re Tindall, London, UK.
Read MoreAnimals in science: The justification issue
Professional bungling and inadequacy of animal care, with ensuing animal distress, can skew animal data and render the particular research useless.
Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Donnelley, S. 1990. Animals in science: The justification issue. In: Animal, Science and Ethics. Donnelley, S. , Nolan, K. (eds), 8-13. The Hastings Center Report, Briarcliff Manor.
Read MoreInhumane Society: The American Way of Exploiting Animals
Today I see the veterinary profession entangled in the economic web of animal exploitation, ranging from the inhuman incarceration of farm animals in industrialized factory farm systems ... to the too-often needless suffering and destruction of laboratory animals in biomedical...
Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Fox, M. W. 1990. Inhumane Society. The American Way of Exploiting Animals. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY.
Read MoreEvaluating the effectiveness of environmental enrichment
Taking the absence of behavioral disorders as a criterion for the effectiveness of an environmental enrichment strategy .. is therefore unrealistic. ... An environmental enrichment strategy is ineffective if it does not promote the expression of species-typical behavior patterns in...
Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1990. Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental enrichment. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 29(1), 15.
Read MoreBordeom and Laboratory Animal Welfare
Boredom is the process in which animals gradually cease to be active interactors and loose their interest in the environment, becoming apathetic and/or inflexible in their responses.
Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Wemelsfelder, F. 1990. Bordeom and Laboratory Animal Welfare. In: The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research. Rollin, B. E. (ed), 243-272. CRC-Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Read MoreEnvironmental Enrichment (Videotape With Commentary)
A demonstration of some feeding enrichment possibilities for various zoo animals, including marmosets.
Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate
Citation: UFAW [Universities Federation for Animal Welfare] 1990. Environmental Enrichment (Videotape With Commentary) . Countywise Communication.Available on loan from Animal Care Audio-Visual Materials, WRPRC, 1220 Capitol Court, Madison, WI 53715, USA, Potters Bar, UK.
Read MoreTraining as a management tool: Creating the climate and maintaining the momentum
A general discussion of training programs.
Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Baker, A. 1991. Training as a management tool: Creating the climate and maintaining the momentum. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Annual Conference Proceedings, 563-568.
Read MoreThe 1985 animal welfare act amendments
It is only common sense, for instance, that an animal will not respond normally if it is stressed or undernourished. ... Because the validity of research results is so dependent on the health of research animals, the future of science...
Year Published: 1991Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General
Citation: Schwindaman, D. 1991. The 1985 animal welfare act amendments. In: Through the Looking Glass. Issues of Psychological Well-Being in Captive Nonhuman Primates. Novak, M. A. , Petto, A. J. (eds), 26-32. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Read MoreTraining for behavioral enrichment and species propagation
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that operant conditioning and positive reinforcement training techniques can be utilized in a zoo setting to provide environmental enrichment.
Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Hogan, M. 1991. Training for behavioral enrichment and species propagation. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Annual Conference Proceedings, 629 (Abstract).
Read MoreEffects of social interaction on well-being: Development aspects
Captive animals will be served best if developing individuals are raised at least through weaning by their biological mothers and have the experience of living in a social group that approximates the size and age-sex composition of the group in...
Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Mason, W. A. 1991. Effects of social interaction on well-being: Development aspects. Laboratory Animal Science 41, 323-328 .
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