Simple Summary Greater awareness about animal welfare forces breeders to pay more
attention to animals' needs and behaviors. The presence of sound coming from …

Music can have powerful effects on human health and wellbeing. These findings have
inspired an emerging field of research that focuses on the potential of music for animal …

Since the beginning of the farm animal welfare debate half a century ago, the focus has
been on the negative side of animal welfare, with most research studying the harms induced …

Simple Summary Racehorses are submitted to stress-inducing practices that include
restricted conditions of life and intensive racing training. This may impair their welfare and …

Music is a complex stimulus, with various spectro-temporal acoustic elements determining
one of the most important attributes of music, the ability to elicit emotions. Effects of various …

The nature and evolution of positive emotion is a major question remaining unanswered in
science and philosophy. The study of feelings and emotions in humans and animals is …

Simple Summary In many countries, pigs and broiler chickens are housed in intensive
systems. Pigs live on concrete floors and straw is not provided. Non-straw enrichments may …

Intensification of swine production can predispose pigs to chronic stress, with adverse
effects on the neuroendocrine and immune systems that can lead to health problems, poor …

Enrichment of milking environment through music has been proposed to help animals to
cope with divergent stressors. In sight of the above, a study was conducted to evaluate the …

Simple Summary For humans, music is a powerful tool of emotional communication,
conveying affective states and modulating physiological states in ways that can influence …