A selection of animal welfare news from around the world
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Please note that the articles below do not reflect opinions of TAWC. Although we aim to provide comprehensive coverage, there are likely articles that we’ve missed.
57 per cent of elephants at Thai tourist facilities have nervous tics (New Scientist O/S)
Pets & companion animals
How Do Old Horses Spend Their Days? (The Horse O/S)
Do Dogs Get SAD? How Seasonal Changes Affect Your Pet (Newsweek O/S)
Podcasts & presentations
British & Irish Assn of Zoos & Aquaria – Vicki Melfi “How attached are zoo keepers to the animals in their care?” (BIAZA)
Can we effectively enrich the lives of intensively farmed pigs? Dr. Yolande Seddon, Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare. (University of Guelph)
ISAE Papers by members, broilers, zebrafish, deer, dairy cows (ISAE)
Albuquerque, N., Mills, D.S., Guo, K. et al. Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions. Anim Cogn (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01544-x
Charalambous, R.; Simonato, T.; Peel, M.; Narayan, E.J. Physiological Stress in Rescued Wild Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Being Held in a Rehabilitation Sanctuary: A Pilot Study. Animals 2021, 11, 2864. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11102864
Hing, S.; Foster, S.; Evans, D. Animal Welfare Risks in Live Cattle Export from Australia to China by Sea. Animals 2021, 11, 2862. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11102862
Lingens, J.B.; Abd El-Wahab, A.; Ahmed, M.F.E.; Schubert, D.C.; Sürie, C.; Visscher, C. Effects of Early Nutrition of Hatched Chicks on Welfare and Growth Performance: A Pilot Study. Animals 2021, 11, 2888. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11102888
Lundmark Hedman, F.; Berg, C.; Stéen, M. Thirty Years of Changes and the Current State of Swedish Animal Welfare Legislation. Animals 2021, 11, 2901. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11102901
Pahuja, H.; Narayan, E. Indexing Baselines: Determining Physiological Stress in Rescued Orphaned Koala Joeys Under Rehabilitation by Comparing Faecal Cortisol Levels Between Healthy and Impaired Individuals. Preprints 2021, 2021100173 https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202110.0173/v1?s=09
Sasitorn Fuktong, Prapatsorn Yuttasaen, Veerasak Punyapornwithaya, Janine L. Brown, Chatchote Thitaram, Nicharee Luevitoonvechakij, Pakkanut Bansiddhi. A survey of stereotypic behaviors in tourist camp elephants in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Volume 243,2021,105456. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159121002434
Conferences, Seminars & Events
REGISTRATION OPEN – Animal Welfare Horizons 2021 (virtual event), 29th November, 9.00am AEST. Register here or visit TAWC Webpage for more details.
REGISTRATION OPEN – The National Primary Industries Animal Welfare Strategy – Research Snapshots, November 30th, 11.00am AEDST – Register here or visit NAWRDES Project Snapshots page for more details
Pain In Animals Workshop 2021, Exploring best practices and knowledge gaps for measuring chronic pain objectively in dogs and acute pain in cattle. Oct. 14 – 15. (11.00pm AEDST) (Details)
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