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Reduction of animal use: experimental design and quality of experiments

It was concluded that about one-third of the experiments appeared to use unnecessarily large numbers of animals, and that the data were correctly analysed in only 13 of the 48 experiments surveyed.

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Festing, M. F. W. 1994. Reduction of animal use: experimental design and quality of experiments. Laboratory Animals 28, 212-221.

Helpful hints regarding Animal Care and Use Protocols

The Animal Care and Use protocol is an important component that allows institutions, such as this university, to maintain a self-governed animal care and use program. The federal government's Animal Welfare Act ... along with the NIH Guide ... place...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Lane, R. 1994. Helpful hints regarding Animal Care and Use Protocols. Animalis - Research Animal Resources Center Newsletter 1(1), 2.

An inspector’s view of the new animal welfare regulations concerning environmental enhancement

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Harlan, N. J. 1994. An inspector's view of the new animal welfare regulations concerning environmental enhancement. American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV) Annual Conference Proceedings, 285-286.

Recognizing animal suffering and pain

Highlights the human conditioning to the incongruous position that considers animals dissimilar to humans with respect to drive, need, or sensation, yet similar enough to be used as models for the study of humans themselves [p. 28]. ... Recognizing animals...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Mroczek, N. S. 1994. Recognizing animal suffering and pain. Lab Animal 23(1), 27-31.

Environmental enrichment and exploration

An understanding of animals' information-gathering needs is an important element in the design of environmental enrichment programs. Animals should be provided with continuing novelty and variability, as well as an opportunity to have some control over their environment.

Year Published: 1994Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Mench, J. A. 1994. Environmental enrichment and exploration. Lab Animal 24(2), 38-41.

The role of environmental enrichment into the captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered species

Environmental enrichment is a concept which describes how the environment of captive animals can be changed to the benefit of the inhabitants. Behavioural opportunities that may arise or increase as a result of environmental enrichment can be appropriately described as...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Shepherdson, D. 1994. The role of environmental enrichment into the captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered species. In: Creative Conservation: Interactive Management of Wild and Captive Animals. Mace, G., Olney, P., Feistner, A. T. C. (eds), 167-177. Chapman & Hall, London.

The importance of animals in biomedical and behavioral research

Like most people, scientists are concerned about animal well-being. ... Institutions receiving support from the Public Health Service are obliged to adhere to the highest possible standards for the humane care and responsible use of laboratory animals. And scientists themselves...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Public Health Service (PHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1994. The importance of animals in biomedical and behavioral research. Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) Newsletter 5(2), 13.

Editorial: Caring for animals, caring for ourselves

Our behavior to other creatures reflects our own characters. We are shaped by what we do. When we act uncaringly toward experimental animals we become uncaring human beings. What is the worth of medical miracles achieved at the cost of...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Spaeth, G. L. 1994. Editorial: Caring for animals, caring for ourselves. Ophthalmic Surgery 25, 426 .

The ethical socialization of animal researchers

A brief discussion of ethical issues related to animal care. In all but two of the 35 laboratories , newcomers faced a closed moral universe where issues of morality were defined institutionally, and hence rarely confronted by individuals. ... It...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Arluke, A. B. 1994. The ethical socialization of animal researchers. Lab Animal 23(6), 30-35.

Animal Welfare – A Cool Eye Towards Eden

Pragmatic, very useful ideas on environmental enrichment. It is reassuringly easy to state the obvious, i.e. sentient animals should not be kept in barren cages. ...Most 'toys' offered to animals in barren environments are ignored after a brief period of...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Webster, J. 1994. Animal Welfare - A Cool Eye Towards Eden. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.