• A novel system to automatically measure behavioural motivation for food in cattle
• A wireless sleep actigraph for calves
• Acoustic features of trapped piglet screams and their effect on maternal reactivity
• Animal welfare science and policy – oil and water or sugar and spice?
• Are Pit Bulls different? Behavioral comparisons between Pit Bull Terriers and other common dog breeds
• Assessing cattle welfare at stunning
• Assessing dog aggressiveness: validation of a behavioural test using the c-barq questionnaire
• Automated measurement of feeding behavior to detect illness in milk-fed calves
• Avoiding hypothermia in neonatal piglets: causes of individual differences
• Behaviour of dairy goats in the collecting area – influence of space allowance and shape
• Behavioural changes associated with lameness in sows
• Can simple visual discrimination learning be used on laying hens as on-farm assessment?
• Can the weaning stress of dairy calves be reduced by weaning later?
• Comparative studies will offer new opportunities for animal welfare research
• Comparison of novel methods to alleviate the pain caused by castration in pigs
• Consistency of flight speed and individual behavioural characteristics of dairy cattle to restraint in a crush
• Dairy cattle prefer shade over sprinklers in summer: effects on behaviour and physiology
• Dairy cows will work for access to shelter from wind and rain
• Development and validation of the Behavioural Assessment for Re-homing K9’s (B.A.R.K.)
• Development of electrical activity and responses to noxious stimuli in the chicken brain
• Development of the Canine Five Factor Model of personality (CFFM) and Monash Canine Personality Questionnaire-Revised (MCPQ-R)
• Different roughages to organic growing/finishing pigs - influence on activity behaviour and social interactions
• Do judgement biases and emotional reactivity reflect the mental state of sheep?
• Dog aggression towards family members: unpredictability of the attacks as a risk factor
• Effect of age on physiology and recovery behaviour of calves transported for 10 hours in individual pens
• Effectiveness of different on-farm killing methods for cull turkeys
• Effects of alternative housing systems on dry sow well-being
• Effects of different forms of exercise on post-inhibitory rebound and unwanted behaviour in stabled horses
• Effects of hide provision and regular petting on the behaviour of stray and surrendered cats in a quarantine shelter
• Effects of pre- and postnatal flavour exposure on stress-related behaviour and postweaning performance in piglets
• Effects of sex and periconceptional ewe nutrition on offspring behavioural and physiological response to isolation
• Effects of split marketing on agonistic behaviour and carcass characteristics of entire male pigs and gilts in a restricted feeding system
• Elevated plasma corticosterone in domesticated hens affects their offspring’s behaviour and physiology both in youth and adulthood
• Emotion, cognition and welfare of birds
• Enrichment programs and animal welfare: catalyst or catastrophe?
• Evaluation of an animal-based welfare protocol for growing pigs in intensive and extensive conditions
• How do larger enriched cages and larger group size affect juvenile mink behaviour?
• How hot is too hot? A cow's view
• How is welfare of transported turkeys affected by cage height?
• Improving the welfare of calves through the use of topical anaesthesia
• Insulin and prolactin secretion are boosted within a few hours after parturition in ewes selected for calm temperament
• Introducing herd health and welfare plans on Austrian organic pig farms
• Maternal behaviour in ewes when their offspring experienced stress and pain
• Measurement of feeding motivation in sheep: effects of food restriction
• Monitoring grazing patterns and habitat selection of the Scottish Blackface, a traditional hill sheep breed, compared with a crossbred, Scottish Blackface x Texel using GPS Satellite telemetry collars
• New approaches to developing humane toxins
• On the mental life of fish: an examination of key philosophical arguments both old and new with an eye to concerns related to moral status and welfare
• Pigs adjust their foraging preference depending on who they are foraging with
• Pleiotropic QTL affecting behaviour and morphology in a large F2 intercross in the chicken (Gallus gallus)
• Positive and negative emotion in sheep: behavioural and physiological correlates
• Post-operative behavioural change in rabbits undergoing abdominal surgery: potential indicators of pain
• Preference of dairy cows: indoors vs. pasture
• Preferences of laying hens for different dustbathing substrates
• Red junglefowl have individual body odours
• Relationship between behaviour and brain activity during the inhalation of 90% CO2 in pigs
• Relationship between metabolic – related production diseases and feeding behavior characteristics of dairy cows in early lactation
• Relationships between sow behaviour and piglet mortality in loose housing farrowing environments outdoors and indoors
• Responses to inequity: dominance and scrounging in egg cannibalism by laying hens
• Rubber covering for pens with fully slatted floor to improve welfare in finishing cattle
• Rules, Relations and Robotics: using behavioural data for refinement, reduction and replacement of animals in research
• Short-term effects of general anaesthesia and analgesia on the suckling order and behaviour of piglets after castration
• Side biases of feral horses: species-typical specializations
• Social animals and philosophical ethology: on the extents of farm animals, welfare and ethics
• Social attraction, social space and familiarity: how do these social factors influence movement?
• Stalled sows demonstrate higher motivation for compost compared to straw
• The control of invasive animals in Australia: development of welfare based codes of practice, standard operating procedures and a model to assess relative humaneness
• The effect of cat behaviour on adoption, relinquishment and retention of shelter cats
• The effect of exposing chicken embryos to light during incubation on their post-hatch fear, physical asymmetry, and behavioral rhythms
• The effect of familiarity on behaviour of kennel housed dogs during interactions with humans
• The effect of treatment for lameness on the relationship between nociceptive threshold and locomotion score
• The effects of group size on nest-box use by Hy-Line Brown laying hens in furnished cages
• The human-animal relationship in commercial laying hens
• The use of anaesthesia and analgesia during dehorning and their effects on the welfare of Bos indicus cattle
• The welfare of wild animals – what does it mean?
• To rely on own experience or to do what others do? – testing conflict of information in the domestic pig
• Using animal behaviour to assess the animal welfare impacts of pest control – a review with ‘real life’ examples
• Validation of a novel data logger for recording lying behaviour of dairy cows and its application on robotic milking farms
• Voluntary use of showers: effects on behaviour and physiology of dairy cattle in summer
• Welfare assessment of restraining traps for wild animals; can behavioural and physiological indices be incorporated into a standard?
• Welfare implications of different culling methods for shooting red deer

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