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Development of a novel primate welfare assessment tool for research macaques. 为研究用猕猴开发新型灵长类动物福利评估工具。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2024-01-24 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2024.3

Emilie A Paterson, Carly I O'Malley, Dawn M Abney, William J Archibald, Patricia V Turner

{"title":"Development of a novel primate welfare assessment tool for research macaques.","authors":"Emilie A Paterson, Carly I O'Malley, Dawn M Abney, William J Archibald, Patricia V Turner","doi":"10.1017/awf.2024.3","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2024.3","url":null,"abstract":"Primates are important species for biomedical research and ensuring their good welfare is critical for research translatability and ethical responsibility. Systematic animal welfare assessments can support continuous programme improvements and build institutional awareness of areas requiring more attention. A multi-facility, collaborative project aimed to develop and implement a novel primate welfare assessment tool (PWAT) for use with research macaques. PWAT development involved: establishing an internal focus group of primate subject matter experts, identifying animal welfare categories and descriptors based on literature review, developing a preliminary tool, beta-testing the tool to ensure practicality and final consensus on descriptors, finalising the tool in a database with semi-automated data analysis, and delivering the tool to 13 sites across four countries. The tool uses input- and outcome-based measures from six categories: physical, behavioural, training, environmental, procedural, and culture of care. The final tool has 133 descriptors weighted based upon welfare impact, and is split into three forms for ease of use (room level, site level, and personnel interviews). The PWAT was trialled across facilities in March and September 2022 for benchmarking current macaque behavioural management programmes. The tool successfully distinguished strengths and challenges at the facility level and across sites. Following this benchmarking, the tool is being applied semi-annually to assess and monitor progress in behavioural management programmes. The development process of the PWAT demonstrates that evidence-based assessment tools can be developed through collaboration and consensus building, which are important for uptake and applicability, and ultimately for promoting global improvements in research macaque welfare.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"33 ","pages":"e3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140130495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Life in a fishbowl: Space and environmental enrichment affect behaviour of Betta splendens. 鱼缸中的生活空间和环境的丰富化影响白斑贝塔鱼的行为。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2024-01-16 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2024.1

Ronald G Oldfield, Emily K Murphy

{"title":"Life in a fishbowl: Space and environmental enrichment affect behaviour of Betta splendens.","authors":"Ronald G Oldfield, Emily K Murphy","doi":"10.1017/awf.2024.1","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2024.1","url":null,"abstract":"The public has expressed growing concern for the well-being of fishes, including popular pet species such as the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). In captivity, male Bettas behave aggressively, often causing injuries and death if housed together. As a result, they are typically isolated in small fishbowls, which has been widely criticised as cruel. To investigate the impact of keeping Bettas in these conditions, we recorded the behaviour of individual males in containers of different sizes that were either bare or enriched with gravel, large rocks, and live plants. When male Bettas were housed individually in small bowls (0.5 L) they spent less time swimming than they did when they were kept in larger aquaria (10, 38, and 208 L). Fish that were kept in enriched containers exhibited more instances of swimming. To determine if two male Bettas housed together might coexist peacefully if given enough space and cover from plants and large rocks, we quantified the behaviour of pairs of male Bettas in bare or enriched aquaria of different sizes (10, 38, 208, 378 L). Fish performed fewer approaches and aggressive displays, but not attacks, and more bouts of foraging, when in larger aquaria. This study shows that the small fishbowls typically used in pet stores suppress swimming behaviour in male Bettas and at least a 10-L aquarium is required to ensure full expression of swimming behaviour. Furthermore, even the use of very large aquaria cannot guarantee peaceful cohabitation between two males.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"33 ","pages":"e1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936361/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of a hiding space on the behaviour and heart rate variability of dairy calves during temporary separation from the dam. 与母牛暂时分离期间，藏匿空间对乳牛行为和心率变异性的影响。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2024-01-16 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.100

Hannah B Spitzer, Rebecca K Meagher, M Lynne O'Sullivan, William Montelpare, Miriam B Gordon, Shawn Lb McKenna, Kathryn L Proudfoot

{"title":"The effect of a hiding space on the behaviour and heart rate variability of dairy calves during temporary separation from the dam.","authors":"Hannah B Spitzer, Rebecca K Meagher, M Lynne O'Sullivan, William Montelpare, Miriam B Gordon, Shawn Lb McKenna, Kathryn L Proudfoot","doi":"10.1017/awf.2023.100","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2023.100","url":null,"abstract":"In natural settings, newborn calves hide for several days before joining the herd. It is unclear whether dairy calves housed indoors would show similar hiding behaviour. This study aimed to describe the use of an artificial hide provided to calves during temporary separation from the dam and assess the effect it has on lying and sleep-like behaviour, as well as heart rate variability (HRV). Twenty-eight cow-calf pairs were randomly assigned to having a hide (n = 14), or no hide (n = 14). Hide use (n = 14), as well as lying and sleep-like behaviour (n = 28), were recorded continuously via video camera during the first hour after the dam was removed for morning milking on day three to seven. Heart rate and R-R intervals were recorded using Polar equine monitors for a subsample of 12 calves (n = 6 per treatment) on day six. Descriptive statistics were calculated for hide use. Wilcoxon Signed Rank tests were used to evaluate whether having a hide affected lying and sleep-like behaviours as well as HRV. Hide use decreased over days and was highly variable between calves. Lying behaviour did not differ between treatments. Duration of sleep-like behaviour was higher for calves without a hide compared to those with a hide. Calves with a hide tended to show signs of higher HRV and parasympathetic activity compared to calves without a hide. Results suggest that providing a hiding space to young calves may be beneficial during periods when the cow is removed from the pen for milking.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936337/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140130497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Public and industry knowledge and perceptions of US swine industry castration practices. 公众和业界对美国养猪业阉割做法的了解和看法。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-12-22 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.99

J M Neary, A P Guthrie, L Jacobs

{"title":"Public and industry knowledge and perceptions of US swine industry castration practices.","authors":"J M Neary, A P Guthrie, L Jacobs","doi":"10.1017/awf.2023.99","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2023.99","url":null,"abstract":"In the United States (US), surgical castration of male piglets is typically performed without any form of analgesia. This may raise concerns with the public; however, there is no information regarding current public knowledge on swine industry practices in the US. In this study we gained insight into public knowledge and perception on castration with and without analgesia in comparison to knowledge of industry stakeholders on these same topics. Through an online survey, 119 respondents were asked four questions about castration in the US swine industry. Industry respondents were contacted via social media and networking. The general public sample was accessed through Mechanical Turk. Survey responses were categorised by experience (industry vs public). Industry respondents were more aware of practices compared to the general public. Most public respondents were unaware of castration practices and the lack of analgesia use. Respondents from rural communities were more aware of castration practices than (sub)urban communities and more aware of analgesia use than those from urban communities. Those with more education had greater awareness of castration practices (occurrence not frequency). Based on the results from this first US sample, knowledge on industry practices was especially lacking for public respondents, but also for a minority of industry respondents, indicating opportunities for education and further research on the topic.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"32 ","pages":"e79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936257/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140130564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tamoxifen exacerbates morbidity and mortality in male mice receiving medetomidine anaesthesia. 他莫昔芬会加剧接受美托咪定麻醉的雄性小鼠的发病率和死亡率。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-12-12 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.98

Victoria S Rashbrook, Laura Denti, Christiana Ruhrberg

{"title":"Tamoxifen exacerbates morbidity and mortality in male mice receiving medetomidine anaesthesia.","authors":"Victoria S Rashbrook, Laura Denti, Christiana Ruhrberg","doi":"10.1017/awf.2023.98","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2023.98","url":null,"abstract":"Tamoxifen-induced CreER-LoxP recombination is often used to induce spatiotemporally controlled gene deletion in genetically modified mice. Prior work has shown that tamoxifen and tamoxifen-induced CreER activation can have off-target effects that should be controlled. However, it has not yet been reported whether tamoxifen administration, independently of CreER expression, interacts adversely with commonly used anaesthetic drugs such as medetomidine or its enantiomer dexmedetomidine in laboratory mice (Mus musculus). Here, we report a high incidence of urinary plug formation and morbidity in male mice on a mixed C57Bl6/J6 and 129/SvEv background when tamoxifen treatment was followed by ketamine-medetomidine anaesthesia. Medetomidine is therefore contra-indicated for male mice after tamoxifen treatment. As dexmedetomidine causes morbidity and mortality in male mice at higher rates than medetomidine even without tamoxifen treatment, our findings suggest that dexmedetomidine is not a suitable alternative for anaesthesia of male mice after tamoxifen treatment. We conclude that the choice of anaesthetic drug needs to be carefully evaluated in studies using male mice that have undergone tamoxifen treatment for inducing CreER-LoxP recombination.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"32 ","pages":"e78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936365/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140130565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Potential resilience treatments for orangutans (Pongo spp.): Lessons from a scoping review of interventions in humans and other animals. 猩猩（Pongo spp.）的潜在恢复力治疗方法：从对人类和其他动物干预措施的范围审查中汲取的教训。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-12-04 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.97

Lelia Bridgeland-Stephens, Susannah Ks Thorpe, Jackie Chappell

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The cost of research: Lasting effects of capture, surgery and muscle biopsy on brown bear (Ursus arctos) movement and physiology. 研究的成本：捕捉、手术和肌肉活检对棕熊运动和生理的持久影响。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-11-21 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.95

Alexandra Thiel, Anne G Hertel, Sylvain Giroud, Andrea Friebe, Boris Fuchs, Jonas Kindberg, Anne Randi Græsli, Jon M Arnemo, Alina L Evans

{"title":"The cost of research: Lasting effects of capture, surgery and muscle biopsy on brown bear (Ursus arctos) movement and physiology.","authors":"Alexandra Thiel, Anne G Hertel, Sylvain Giroud, Andrea Friebe, Boris Fuchs, Jonas Kindberg, Anne Randi Græsli, Jon M Arnemo, Alina L Evans","doi":"10.1017/awf.2023.95","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2023.95","url":null,"abstract":"Animal models are a key component of translational medicine, helping transfer scientific findings into practical applications for human health. A fundamental principle of research ethics involves weighing the benefits of the research to society against the burden imposed on the animals used for scientific purposes. The utilisation of wild animals for research requires evaluation of the effects of capture and invasive sampling. Determining the severity and duration of these interventions on the animal's physiology and behaviour allows for refining study methodology and for excluding or accounting for biased data. In this study, 39 Scandinavian brown bears (Ursus arctos) captured either while hibernating in winter or via helicopter in summer and that underwent surgery as part of a human health project had their movement, body temperature and timing of onset of hibernation compared with those of 14 control bears that had not been captured during the same period. Bears captured in winter and summer showed decreased movement from den exit until late summer, compared to those in the control group. Bears captured in summer showed reduced movement and body temperature for at least, respectively, 14 and 3 days, with an 11% decrease in hourly distance, compared to pre-capture levels, but did not differ in the timing of hibernation onset. We reveal that brown bear behaviour and physiology can be altered in response to capture and surgery for days to months, post-capture. This has broad implications for the conclusions of wildlife studies that rely upon invasive sampling.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"32 ","pages":"e75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10951663/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140178669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why workshops work: Examining the efficacy of training trainers to train goats. 研讨会为何有效？研究培训员培训山羊的效果。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-11-21 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.94

Jennifer Meier, Viviane Theby, Lorenz Gygax, Edna Hillman, Carola Fischer-Tenhagen

{"title":"Why workshops work: Examining the efficacy of training trainers to train goats.","authors":"Jennifer Meier, Viviane Theby, Lorenz Gygax, Edna Hillman, Carola Fischer-Tenhagen","doi":"10.1017/awf.2023.94","DOIUrl":"10.1017/awf.2023.94","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental procedures involving farm animals are often associated with stress due to restraining. Stress can be reduced through use of positive reinforcement training, which then serves as refinement according to the 3Rs principles. Trainer skills, however, may influence the feasibility and success of animal training. The potential influence of trainer skills as well as the education of animal trainers are rarely described in literature but are necessary information for the implementation of positive reinforcement training as a refinement measure. To investigate the effect of educational programmes on animal trainers, we compared the training success of two groups of participants in training goats to elicit a behaviour that would allow simulated venipuncture. One group was educated in a two-day workshop while the other was provided with specific literature for self-instructed learning. Training success was evaluated using an assessment protocol developed for this study. A greater training success in the WORKSHOP GROUP, reflected by objective and subjective measures, was clearly supported statistically. In addition, 73 versus only 13% of the participants of the WORKSHOP GROUP and the self-instructed BOOK GROUP, respectively, stated that they could completely implement the knowledge gained in the course of this study. Our results indicate that more intensively educated trainers can train animals more successfully. In conclusion, if animal training is implemented as refinement, animal caretakers should receive instruction for positive reinforcement training.","PeriodicalId":7894,"journal":{"name":"Animal Welfare","volume":"32 ","pages":"e76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10955182/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140186830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Erratum: An effective environmental enrichment framework for the continual improvement of production animal welfare - ERRATUM. 勘误：持续改善生产动物福利的有效强化环境框架 - ERRATUM。

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Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-03-01 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.23

Peta S Taylor, Peggy Schrobback, Megan Verdon, Caroline Lee

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Erratum: Welfare of dairy cows in Kosovo and intervention thresholds for selected welfare indicators as suggested by farmers and veterinarians - ERRATUM. 勘误：科索沃奶牛的福利以及农民和兽医建议的某些福利指标的干预阈值 - ERRATUM。

IF 1.2 4区农林科学

Animal Welfare Pub Date : 2023-02-15 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/awf.2023.15

E Zhitia, C Leeb, S Muji, C Winckler

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