🐽PigVoice 🐷❤🥓 presents on findings that show sows’ fear of people is passed on to their piglets and also affects how piglets respond in a maze-reward test So much pig & positive human contact research at #ISAE2023 😃🐽💕

Pitching my poster #ISAE2023 today on meeting farm animals behavioural needs and favoring positive welfare (number 40)! This afternoon, colleague Fleur Hoorweg will host a workshop on the same topic! Welcome to join or meet me at the poster!

Wonderfully entertaining and thought provoking plenary by Irene Camerlink including fairy pigs 🧚🏻‍♀️ “Having a friend close-by: social preference in piglets and its relevance at weaning” #isae2023 #socialbehaviour

Time for 🐈 🐱 at #ISAE2023 with a large owner questionnaire reporting that cat owners appear more likely to correctly perceive their cat’s behaviours as problems if they have a negative impact on owners (eg owner-directed aggression, spraying)

Ruan Daros reporting on a novel test to assess pig behaviour, involving measuring responses to a laser pointer in the home pen #ISAE2023

Mathilde Coutant - we need to be careful when using vocalisation indicators to measure pain and stress responses in pigs. Different indicators can tell different stories 🐖 #ISAE2023

"Choice & control are essential for animal welfare" ... but what does that mean? and are we sure? In a new publication with @cognitive_maze, we unpack these questions and pinpoint research needs. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #animalwelfare #OpenAccess Frontiers - Veterinary Science #zoo

Rutu Galea impressed the #ISAE2023 crowd with the massive epidemiological study being conducted as part of her PhD research, within our collaborative “Tails” project in Australia Animal Welfare Science Centre Science at Melbourne

A nice surprise to hear my favourite thing to talk about ever, chicken clicker training, presented in one of the last talks of the day! By Manja Zupan Semrov 🐓 🟣 #ISAE2023

More great Animal Welfare Science Centre Science at Melbourne representation at #ISAE2023 Maxine Rice on piling behaviour in hens

Warms my heart to see Lloyd Morgan’s canon mentioned in a very nice presentation and study by Louise Evans Whoa, No-Go: Evidence consistent with model-based strategy use in horses during an inhibitory control task #isae2023 #horsebehaviour

New review out📌 on #pigolfaction @aa_schild and I map the current knowns and unknowns in pig olfaction research and explore how odours may be used to optimise pig housing, management, enrichment and finally welfare. #pigenrichment #pigproduction frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

#newresearchalert Ever wondered how different types of odours affect pig production and welfare? Get your answer in this new review by Schild & Rørvang: "Pig olfaction: the potential impact and use of odors in commercial pig husbandry". applied-ethology.org/Papers_by_Memb… #pigolfaction

#newresearchalert New review by Siegford et al. aims to help applied ethologists develop a critical approach to evaluating Automated Behaviour Analysis (ABA) tools for their own use and to facilitate ethologists’ engagement to help develop quality ABA. applied-ethology.org/Papers_by_Memb…

New book out: "Wildlife Ethics: the Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation." The book explores key ethical questions about managing and conserving #wildanimals 🐘 Read more and download the first ch. 📷 shorturl.at/giBOX #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife #Conservation

Congrats to Mathilde - fourth and last paper from PhD thesis printed - a new way to explore relationships between animal based measures of pain and stress in piglets during castration: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Jens Malmkvist Institut for Husdyr- og Veterinærvidenskab, AU

I was part of a fantastic team that recently published two papers on cats and harmful myths about them .. With Monique Udell, Candace Croney, Kari Ekenstedt & Kate Shoveller Here's part 1... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New study from Zoos Victoria demonstrates that learning outcomes are met in the absence of physically touching animals in #zoo programs. This is important data for those advocating for non-contact programs at their facilities. #animalwelfare issuu.com/izejournal/doc…

Ethical evolutions: navigating the future of animal behaviour and welfare research - 2023 - me & Dr Matt Parker journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17… #AnimalEthics #ResearchEthics cc @HKVetSchool CityU Centre for Animal Health and Welfare (CAHW)

new pub from the ⁦Dog Cognition Lab⁩ lab! "enrichment" toys are not terribly enriching: dogs showed no change in welfare after interacting with more complex toys. mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/2…