Current animal welfare protocols focus on demonstrating the absence (or at least low levels)
of indicators of poor welfare, potentially creating a mismatch between what is expected by …

Simple Summary Positive welfare represents an expansion of the traditional animal welfare
understanding that animal welfare is defined by minimizing negative experiences such as …

Simple Summary Broiler chickens are conventionally housed in monotonous environments
at high stocking densities, which can negatively affect their welfare. This study evaluated the …

Simple Summary The objectives of this study were to determine if housing Bovan brown
laying hens in conventional cages or enriched floor pens impacted novel physiological and …

Virtual fencing involving the application of audio cues and electrical stimuli is being
commercially developed for cattle. Virtual fencing has the potential to improve productivity …

To ensure animal welfare is not compromised, virtual fencing must be predictable and
controllable, and this is achieved through associative learning. To assess the influence of …

Attention bias is a new approach to assessing animal affect that has shown promising
results in several animal species. It describes a tendency to preferentially attend to …

Although disturbances in body function of animals can be measured to determine whether a
state of stress may exist, there is growing interest in finding ways to assess their emotional …

Understanding animal emotional (affective) state is highly relevant to various disciplines (eg,
animal welfare, neuroscience, comparative psychology), and has been significantly …

Idiopathic epilepsy (IE) is the most common chronic neurological condition in dogs,
characterised by recurrent seizure activity and associated with negative behavioural and …