Conceptual and methodological issues relating to pain assessment in mammals: The development and utilisation of pain facial expression scales

KM McLennan, AL Miller, E Dalla Costa… - Applied Animal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Effective management of pain is critical to the improvement of animal welfare. For this to
happen, pain must be recognised and assessed in a variety of contexts. Pain is a complex …

Towards machine recognition of facial expressions of pain in horses

PH Andersen, S Broomé, M Rashid, J Lundblad, K Ask… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Facial activity can convey valid information about the experience of pain in
a horse. However, scoring of pain in horses based on facial activity is still in its infancy and …

Evaluation of animal-based indicators to be used in a welfare assessment protocol for sheep

SE Richmond, F Wemelsfelder… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Sheep are managed under a variety of different environments (continually outdoors, partially
outdoors with seasonal or diurnal variation, continuously indoors) and for different purposes …

Why pain is still a welfare issue for farm animals, and how facial expression could be the answer

KM McLennan - Agriculture, 2018 - mdpi.com
Pain is a sensory and emotional experience that significantly affects animal welfare and has
negative impacts on the economics of farming. Pain is often associated with common …

Persistence of pain in humans and other mammals

ACC Williams - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary models of chronic pain are relatively undeveloped, but mainly concern
dysregulation of an efficient acute defence, or false alarm. Here, a third possibility, mismatch …

Early life painful procedures: long-term consequences and implications for farm animal welfare

SJJ Adcock - Frontiers in Animal Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Farm animals routinely undergo painful husbandry procedures early in life, including
disbudding and castration in calves and goat kids, tail docking and castration in piglets and …

Painful procedures: when and what should we be measuring in cattle?

SJJ Adcock, CB Tucker - Advances in cattle welfare, 2018 - Elsevier
Pain research in cattle has focused on the first few hours or days following the procedure,
and few studies have looked at the progression of pain during and, possibly, after healing …

Pain Relief Interventions in Australian Livestock Husbandry: A Review of Animal Welfare and Pain Duration

L Metcalf, S Lomax, D Van der Saag, S Garg, PJ White - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary It is well established that animals feel pain akin to humans, although the
expression of that pain is not as easy to perceive, especially considering that many species …

Limited Effects of Pain Control Treatments on Behaviour and Weight Gain of Pure and Crossbred Nellore Heifer Calves When Subjected to Hot-Iron Branding

A Hernandez, PHE Trindade, MJR Paranhos Da Costa… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This study investigated the effects of pain relief treatments on behaviour
and weight gain in 92 Nellore and crossbred (F1 Aberdeen Angus× Nellore) heifer calves …

The (unethical) consumption of a newborn animal: cabrito as a tourist and recreational dish in Monterrey, Mexico

GJQ Venegas, ÁL López - Animals, food, and tourism, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter focuses on the consumption of kid meat for tourism and recreational purposes
from a utilitarian standpoint, whose premise, according to P. Singer, is that individual …