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Allometric comparison of recommendations of minimum floor areas for laboratory animals

The general allometric measure seems at least a good scale for the comparison of recommended floor space, and for the discussion of species-specific needs for more or less space.

Year Published: 1999Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Hackbarth, H., Bohnet, W., Tsai, P. P. 1999. Allometric comparison of recommendations of minimum floor areas for laboratory animals. Laboratory Animals 33, 351-355.

How to measure animal welfare? Proceedings of the Second NAHWOA (Network for Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Agriculture) Workshop, 135-142

A practical tool for assessing farm animal housing conditions in respect to animals' well-being and behavioral needs.

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Bartussek, H. 2000. How to measure animal welfare? Proceedings of the Second NAHWOA (Network for Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Agriculture) Workshop, 135-142.

What Should We Do About Animal Welfare? Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK

Excellent discussion of factors affecting the well-being of captive animals. The physical environment has complex and contradictory effects on animal welfare, but the main problems for many animals kept by humans can be simply summarized: shortage of space and lack...

Year Published: 1999Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Appleby, M. C. 1999. What Should We Do About Animal Welfare? Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.

Animal definition: a necessity for the validity of animal experiments? Laboratory Animals 22, 121-130

In most scientific journals, experimental animals are described poorly. Whether this is scientifically justified is discussed in this article. It was concluded that when laboratory animals are used in scientific experiments, which almost always are of a quantitative nature, a...

Year Published: 1999Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Orink, K. J., Rehbinder, C. 1999. Animal definition: a necessity for the validity of animal experiments? Laboratory Animals 22, 121-130.

New perspectives on the design and management of captive animal environments

Discussion of selected artificial and naturalistic approaches to primate environmental enrichment.

Year Published: 1999Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Shepherdson, D. 1999. New perspectives on the design and management of captive animal environments. In: Attitudes to Animals - Views in Animal Welfare. Dolins, F. L. (ed), 143-151. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Criteria for humane endpoints

Refinement incorporates all measures taken to avoid, minimize, recognize and alleviate pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm - or to otherwise improve the welfare and well-being of the experimental subjects. [p. 27]

Year Published: 1999Topics: Humane EndpointAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Richmond, J. 1999. Criteria for humane endpoints. In: Humane Endpoints in Animal Experiments for Biomedical Research: Proceedings of the International Conference. Hendriksen, C. F. M. , Morton, D. B. (eds), 26-32. The Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, UK.

What’s wrong with the IACUC?

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Doerning, B. 2000. What's wrong with the IACUC? Lab Animal 29(10), 28.

Proposal II (General Part of Appendix A)

Animals should be socially housed whenever possible and provided with an adequately complex environment within the enclosures to enable them to carry out a range of normal behaviours. Restricted environments can lead to behavioural and physiological abnormalities and affect the...

Year Published: 2000Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Convention of the Council of Europe 2000. Proposal II (General Part of Appendix A). Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.

Assessing animal care and use programs internationally

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Bayne, K., Miller, J. G. 2000. Assessing animal care and use programs internationally. Lab Animal 29(6), 27-29.

Laboratory animal enrichment

The institution must avoid a minimalist approach to implementing the enrichment program(s) and the IACUC must take a proactive role in its oversight. ..Environmental enrichment is an environment in which complex stimuli are provided to alleviate the occurrence of abnormal...

Year Published: 2000Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Bayne, K. 2000. Laboratory animal enrichment. In: The IACUC Handbook. Silverman, J., Suckow, M. A., Murthy, S. (eds), 465-480. CRC Press, New York, NY.