The modern zoo has been associated with two major behavioral welfare advances:(a) the
use of training to increase voluntary husbandry care, and (b) the implementation of …

Current frameworks for designing and evaluating good enclosures and “enrichments”
typically focus on animals' active interactions with these features. This has undoubtedly …

Highlights•Ball rolling by bumble bees fulfils animal play criteria.•Ball rolling can act as an
unconditioned rewarding stimulus.•Younger bees rolled more balls, with age patterns …

Variations in the predictability of a stressor have pronounced effects on the behavioural and
physiological effects of stress in rats. It is reasonable to expect that variations in the …

In graduate school at the University of California at Davis, I had the good fortune to work in a
research lab in developmental psychobiology investigating the consequences of social …

Simple Summary The welfare of farmed pigs can be improved by modifying their
environment with bedding, substrates, or objects, so that they can perform more of their pig …

Animal welfare is a high priority for pet owners and accredited zoos and aquariums. Current
approaches to measuring welfare focus on identifying consensus among behavioral and …

Devising new and more efficient protocols to analyze the phenotypes of non-human
primates, as well as their complex nervous systems, is rapidly becoming of paramount …

Chewing and rooting are high behavioural priorities in pigs. Lack of suitable materials can
lead to abnormal behaviours such as tail and ear biting. In commercial farming, slatted floors …

Cognitive enrichment, a special form of environmental enrichment, addresses the cognitive
abilities of animals in captivity. Through cognitive interaction with the environment, the …