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The benefits of social enrichment for zoo-housed primates
Year Published: 2000Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: All/General
Citation: Bassett, L. 2000. The benefits of social enrichment for zoo-housed primates. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Zoo Research . 53-62. Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK.
Read MoreA survey of operant conditioning in AZA institutions
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Good, S. 2000. A survey of operant conditioning in AZA institutions. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Regional Conference Proceedings, 27-31.
Read MoreEnvironmental enrichment to improve animal welfare: goals, methods, and measures of success
Theoretical considerations on environmental enrichment. The animals should not be suffering from unpleasant subjective states such as pain, fear of frustration.
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Fraser, D., Jasper, J., Weary, D. M. 2000. Environmental enrichment to improve animal welfare: goals, methods, and measures of success. In: Progress in the Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of Animal Experimentation. Balls, M., Van Zeller, A. M., Halder, M. (eds), 1283-1293. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Read MoreThe qualitative assessment of animal behavioural expression and its application to animal husbandry
Results suggest that the description of behavioural expressions is based on commonly perceived and systematically applied criterea, and could be used as a refinement of existing methods of welfare assessment. .. Boredome, defined as the process in which animals gradually...
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Wemelsfelder, F. 2000. The qualitative assessment of animal behavioural expression and its application to animal husbandry. In: Progress in the Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of Animal Experimentation. Balls, M., Van Zeller, A. M., Halder, M. (eds), 1305-1311. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Read MoreSacred Cows and Golden Geese – The Human Costs of Experiments on Animals
Roughly fifteen percent of all hospital admissions are caused by adverse medication reactions. And legal drugs, which made their way to the public via animals, kill approximately 100,000 people per year. That is more than all illegal drugs combined and...
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Greek, C. R. , Swingle Greek, J. 2000. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese - The Human Costs of Experiments on Animals. Continuum, New York, NY.
Read MoreWhat’s wrong with the IACUC?
IACUCs also need an IACUC Chair and members who are not concerned about promotion and tenure issues being compromised by their IACUC role. I worked at a Big Ten University. On semi-annual inspections, ICAUC members told me they would never...
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: McClure, D. 2000. What's wrong with the IACUC? Lab Animal 29(10), 28.
Read MoreZoo Animals and their human audiences: What is the visitor effect? Animal Welfare 9, 343-357
A review. We can conclude that social facilitation effects cannot explain the pattern of responses [increase in agonistic and decrease in affiliative behavior] of non-human primates to human observers. There is not sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis that human...
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Hosey, G. R. 2000. Zoo Animals and their human audiences: What is the visitor effect? Animal Welfare 9, 343-357.
Read MoreThe Biology of Animal Stress: Priniciples and Implications for Animal Welfare
A collection of papers presented at a conference held in 1998.
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Moberg, G. P. , Mench, J. A. 2000. The Biology of Animal Stress: Priniciples and Implications for Animal Welfare. CABI Publishing, Wllingford, UK.
Read MoreBehavioral problem solving using operant conditioning
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Sullivan, T. 2000. Behavioral problem solving using operant conditioning. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Regional Conference Proceedings, 167-169.
Read MoreThe attending veterinarian as an ally and leader of the IACUC
It is not surprising, that should the AV [attending veterinarian] become a leader of the IACUC [Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee], some researchers might view her as an adversary (or at best an annoyance) rather than an ally, especially...
Year Published: 2000Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Silverman, J. 2000. The attending veterinarian as an ally and leader of the IACUC. Lab Animal 29(10), 26-27.
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