#Act4 Pets Finnish study finds three-quarters of dogs exhibit highly problematic behaviour. Dog breeders urged to act over high levels of anxiety in pets 9 March 2020
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A collection of essays offers a thorough review of evolutionary thanatology. What do animals know and feel about death and dying? 28 February 2020
#Act4 Wildlife A population of North Island robins in a New Zealand sanctuary provides a unique system for investigating the memory skills of birds in the wild. Wild birds remember a novel task for nearly two years 24 February 2020
#Act4 Pets Just like humans, cats have different personalities. Researchers have now found that this also means that they respond differently to stress in unfamiliar environments. Cats’ personalities reflected in their coping styles 17 February 2020
#Act4 Aquatics Researchers find that growth-stunted farmed salmon show chronic serotonergic activity and do not respond to acute stress — a state that could be interpreted as depression. Farmed salmon may be depressed, says study 3 February 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals As part of their work on research animals, RSPCA recently funded a study which shows that current EU requirements don’t allow these animals to express their natural behaviours. RSPCA: EU requirements don’t respect the welfare of research animals 31 January 2020 RSPCA
#Act4 Wildlife Research from Oxford University calls us to reconsider how behaviours may spread through societies of wild animals, and how this might provide new insights into human social networks Social influencers: what can we learn from animals? 3 December 2019
#Act4 Aquatics The concept of fish welfare is fairly recent and was overlooked for many years, based on a popular misconception that fish were “stupid” creatures devoid of any kind of sentience or mental capability. Welfare of fish—no longer the elephant in the room 27 July 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Research showing goats can communicate emotion by bleating should help us build empathy with our fellow animals Goats get emotional? Humans shouldn't be surprised – all mammals are amazing 11 July 2019
This article proposes to establish a universal definition of the phenomenon of Domestication. Study explores universal definition of 'domestication' to trigger the global progress of animal welfare 30 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals We’ve all heard them and used them – the common references to farmed animals that appeal to the worst part of human nature: ‘pearls before swine’, ‘what a pig’, ‘like lambs to the slaughter’, ‘bird brain’. Face it: A farmed animal is someone, not something 11 May 2019