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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.

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.

A 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.

Environmental 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.

The 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.

Sacred 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.

What’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.

Zoo 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.