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The Environmental Enrichment Committee
Although many enrichment strategies have been used prior to the formation of the committee, having the facility director formally authorize the committee gave the members credibility with the Principle Investigators, resources for program development, and time allotments for meetings and...
Year Published: 2002Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General
Citation: Steward, K. L. 2002. The Environmental Enrichment Committee. Proceedings of the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, 106 (Abstract).
Read MoreAmendments to the Farm Bill would affect research animal welfare
Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Shalev, M. 2002. Amendments to the Farm Bill would affect research animal welfare. Lab Animal 31(5), 17.
Read MoreThe ill-effects of uncomfortable quarters
From all these findings, it will now be obvious that the provision of comfortable quarters - including handling procedures - with a stable environment, companionship, and freedom to engage in the species-typical basic activities, is of supreme importance, alike for...
Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Russell, W. M. S. 2002. The ill-effects of uncomfortable quarters. In: Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals, Ninth Edition. Reinhardt, V. , Reinhardt, A. (eds.), 1-5. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.
Read MoreThe impact of pain and distress on the outcome of research: Why animal welfare and good science go together
The notion that strategies that promote animal welfare benefit scientific outcomes would seem to be self-evident. ... Strategies that are useful fall into three broad categories: 1) the management of pain and distress through pharmacological intervention, 2) refinement of techniques...
Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Rose, M. 2002. The impact of pain and distress on the outcome of research: Why animal welfare and good science go together. Proceedings of the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, 58 (Abstract).
Read MoreBehavioral management: Its everyone’s job
Behavioral management as a concept provides a common ground from which animal facilities may start to build a successful facility behavioral program.
Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Rice, T. R., Walden, S., Laule, G. E. et al. 2002. Behavioral management: Its everyone's job. Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science 41(4), 58-61.
Read MoreImplications of Human-Animal Interactions and Bonds in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to ILAR's issue Implications of Human-Research Interactions and Bond in the Laboratory. I was encouraged not to assign names to the many rhesus monkeys in my charge. I was admonished that the animals are research subjects, not pets. The...
Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General
Citation: Wolfle, T. L. 2002. Introduction. ILAR Journal 43(1), 1-3.
Read MorePhilosophical debate on the nature of well-being: Implications for animal welfare
A theoretical discussion on the nature and definition of well-being. The different conceptions of well-being used by philosophers provide a basis for evaluating different conceptions of animal welfare.
Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Appleby, M. C., Sandoe, J. 2002. Philosophical debate on the nature of well-being: Implications for animal welfare. Animal Welfare 11, 283-294.
Read MoreAdoption options for laboratory animals
Collectively, the authors have placed hundreds of laboratory animal in adoptive homes.
Year Published: 2003Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Carbone, L., Guanzini, L., McDonald, C. 2003. Adoption options for laboratory animals. Lab Animal 32(9), 37-41.
Read MoreThe benefits of positive reinforcement training and its effects on human nonhuman animal interactions
Year Published: 2003Animal Type: All/General
Citation: Buchanan-Smith, H. M. 2003. The benefits of positive reinforcement training and its effects on human nonhuman animal interactions. In: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Zoo Research. 21-26. Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK.
Read MoreIt’s a wrap! The Shape of Enrichment 12(2), 8-9
Year Published: 2003Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General
Citation: Brenner, R. 2003. It's a wrap! The Shape of Enrichment 12(2), 8-9.
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