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Sheriff, M., Sonnega, S. 2024. Harnessing the gut microbiome: A potential biomarker for wild animal welfare. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11.
The welfare of wild animal populations is critically important to conservation, with profound implications for ecosystem health, biodiversity, and zoonotic disease transmission. Animal welfare is ...
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Weisbroth, S. H. 2024. The use of rabbits used to propagate human lice for research. Comparative Medicine 74(3), 135–141.
The globally important human diseases of trench fever, epidemic typhus, and relapsing fever are vectored by the human louse Pediculus humanus humanus. Although these conditions are epidemically ...
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Rachinas-Lopes, P., Rocha, I. C., Dias, T. et al. 2024. The effects of enrichment on zoo-housed scarlet ibis behavior. Animals 14(13), 1903.
Good zoo animal welfare is commonly promoted with environmental enrichment; however, some species are less likely to be offered enrichment than others. This study tested the effect of enrichment on a ...
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Prims, S., Van Ginneken, C., Van Ostade, X. et al. 2024. Welfare assessment in pigs using the salivary proteome. Animals 14(11), 1703.
Identifying the potential presence of stress at the pig farm is fundamental since it affects pig welfare. As a result, a reliable and straightforward tool to monitor stress could record the welfare ...
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Wardrop, E. 2024, April. Refinements to goat housing for ADME collections. Animal Technology and Welfare 23(1), 66–67.
Typically, ADME studies are conducted using metabolism cages designed for the single housing of animals to enable the quantitative collection of urine and faeces, normally over a 1 to 2 week period.
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Waghorn, N. 2024, April. Exploring enrichment enjoyed by Zebrafish. Animal Technology and Welfare 23(1), 64–65.
Many studies highlighted that gravel is a preferred enrichment of zebrafish, therefore we were keen to explore this anecdotal evidence further, to ascertain if the spatial distribution of the ...
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Vine, A. J., Hammond, A., Abernethy Palmer, G. et al. 2024. Whole versus chopped food: The bintu-right way to do it? Discover Animals 1(1), 18.
It remains common practice for zoos to chop animal diets into small pieces, even though there is limited evidence to support this practice. It is important that the purported benefits of chopping food ...
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NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data Research Award
AWI's Center for the Study of NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data is pleased to offer two $5,000 grants for master's and doctoral students to utilize National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) animal ...
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History of AWI's Leadership on Establishing and Upholding Farmed Animal Standards
Promoting high welfare, animal-sensitive standards of animal husbandry in farming is a major objective of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI). In 1988, with assistance from farmers, veterinarians and ...
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Atlantic Humpback Dolphin
There are four species of humpback dolphins (genus Sousa) and one subspecies, all of which are considered to be decreasing in number by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...
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Help Orphaned, Injured Bats and Support Vital Conservation Work This Bat Week
Washington, DC—As Bat Week kicks off October 24, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is hosting its first-ever bat-tacular fundraiser to help organizations operating bat rescues, sanctuaries, and ...