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Operant animal welfare: productive approaches and persistent difficulties

Operant procedures occupy a prominent role within animal welfare science because they provide information about the strength of animals' preferences. It is assumed that strongly motivated choices commonly indicate conditions necessary for uncompromised welfare. A review of the literature shows...

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Pattereson-Kane, E. G., Pittman, M., Pajor, E. A. 2008. Operant animal welfare: productive approaches and persistent difficulties. Animal Welfare 17, 139-148.

Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals

The book focuses specifically on the scientific understanding of the causes and the functions of stress and distress, the transformation of stress to distress, and the identification of principles for the recognition and alleviation of distress. This book discusses the...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: National Research Council. 2008. Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals. The National Academies Press: Washington, DC, 136 pp.

Collaboration between academia and industry with focus on improvement of the welfare of both animals and humans in laboratory animal facilities

The vision of the Centre of Applied Animal Research is described.

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Ottesen, J. L., Mikkelsen, L. F., Bertelsen, T. et al. 2008. Collaboration between academia and industry with focus on improvement of the welfare of both animals and humans in laboratory animal facilities. AATEX (Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation) 14(Special Issue), 69-71.

Guidelines to Promote the Wellbeing of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes: The Assessment and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Research Animals

this document is also relevant to people that conduct, review or manageresearch with animals all over the world.

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: All/General

Citation: National Health and Medical Research Council 2008. Guidelines to Promote the Wellbeing of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes: The Assessment and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Research Animals. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, Australia.

Does distress matter?

Year Published: 2008Topics: Emotion, Pain, & SentienceAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: MacArthur Clark, J. 2008. Does distress matter? AATEX (Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation) 14(Special Issue), 93-95.

The standards of the rearing environment for laboratory animals in Japan

In Japan, the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) provides guidelines for laboratory animal facilities and equipment. Guidelines are not legally binding but serve as the authority for proper facilities and equipment management. The first guideline draft, proposed in 1966, was...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Hachisu, H. 2008. The standards of the rearing environment for laboratory animals in Japan. AATEX (Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation) 14, 57-59.

Standards of accommodation and care for animals used in scientific procedures in Europe

The regulation of the use of animals for experimental and other scientific purposes and the determination of minimum required standards of animal care and accommodation within Europe is generally informed by recommendations and conventions at the level of the Council...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Anderson, D. B. 2008. Standards of accommodation and care for animals used in scientific procedures in Europe. AATEX (Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation) 14(Special Issue), 51-55.

Refinement in the literature: Searching for environmental enrichment

This review will examine early research into environmentally enriched housing and how that same concept is applied in various management settings today. .. This paper will also discuss methods of searching the literature to locate information on housing refinements, particularly...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Adams, K. M. 2008. Refinement in the literature: Searching for environmental enrichment. AATEX (Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation) 14(Special Issue), 307-312.

A holistic approach to taking research animal suffering seriously

Recommendation are made how animal suffering can be minimized in research labs.

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Stephens, M., Conlee, K. 2008. A holistic approach to taking research animal suffering seriously. AATEX (Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation) 14(Special Issue), 73-78.

Single or social housing for research animals

Traditional approaches using single housing should be discouraged where social housing is advantageous and improves animal welfare, yet is not detrimental to the scientific outcomes. .. In neuroscience, when chronic implants are used, there is concern that interaction between animals...

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Scott, E., Ryder, K., Anderson, D. B. 2008. Single or social housing for research animals. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 90 (Abstract).