Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

Emotion recognition represents the ability to encode an ensemble of sensory stimuli
providing information about the emotional state of another individual. This ability is not …

Winner, 2020 ASCA Book Award, given by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis A
groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva …

Simple Summary Equine assisted interventions (EAIs) represent an emerging field of animal
assisted interventions (AAIs), employing horses in a wide variety of activities with humans …

Simple Summary Animal welfare is the result of physical and psychological well-being and
is expected to occur if animals are free:(1) from hunger, thirst and malnutrition,(2) from …

Equine-assisted services (EASs) are being increasingly used as complementary
interventions for military veterans who have experienced trauma. However, there is limited …

Emotional contagion, the emotional state‐matching of an individual with another, seems to
be crucial for many social species. In recent years evidence on emotional contagion in …

In the past 20 years, research focusing on interspecific sociocognitive abilities of animals
toward humans has been growing, allowing a better understanding of the interactions …

Domestic animals are sensitive to human cues that facilitate inter-specific communication,
including cues to emotional state. The eyes are important in signalling emotions, with the act …

Simple Summary Recently, an increasing number of studies have investigated the
expression and perception of emotions by non-human animals. In particular, it is of interest …