• A diagnostic tool to assess and enhance calf welfare and management on-farm
• A multimedia-based cognitive-behavioural intervention programme improves the attitude of stockpeople to handling pigs
• Alleviation of pain and discomfort through common dental procedures for horses
• Animal-based measures for determining effectiveness of euthanasia of neonate piglets
• Behavioral and physiological responses of dairy cows to lipopolysaccharide induced clinical mastitis
• Behaviour epigenetics – implications for domestication and welfare
• Behaviour patterns in captive Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) females during parturition and lactation
• Breed differences in individual distance of domestic sheep
• Changes in captive red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) peripartum mother and infant behaviour for one month after farrowing
• Comparison between blood and salivary cortisol levels in horses (Equus caballus) using an ACTH challenge
• Comparison of two motor laterality tests in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
• Cow preference and usage of free stalls versus an open lying area
• Describing the ideal Australian companion dog
• Differences in the pre-calving behaviour of dairy heifers and cows, with and without calving difficulties
• Does a picture of a peer's face decrease isolation stress in cows?
• Does flight distance really reflect the reaction to direct contact of human in cow?
• Domestication effects on fearfulness in chickens
• Dung avoidance behaviour of Dartmoor ponies (Equus caballus)
• Effect of alternative methods for increasing stocking density short-term on lying and ruminating behavior of lactating Holstein dairy cows.
• Effect of broody hens on behaviour of chicks
• Effect of environmental enrichment on the behaviour and welfare of suckling dairy goat kids in confinement
• Effect of feed barrier design on feeding and vigilance behaviour of freestall housed dairy cows
• Effect of parity on acute phase proteins and general activity in dairy cows during the puerperal period
• Effects of extended evening zoo opening hours on the behaviour of captive mammals
• Effects of extended lactation on cow activity
• Effects of grazing opportunities on dairy cow comfort
• Effects of previous handling on calf responses towards humans
• Effects of previous handling on responses of dairy calves during painful procedures
• Encoding and genetic selection of psycho-acoustic markers of emotions in sheep
• Ethical challenges in wildlife management
• Exploring choice and control opportunities applied in enrichment and training
• Hunger in pregnant sows; the effect of fibre diet and free access to straw
• Lying during transport by lambs depends on the duration of pre-transport food and water deprivation as well as the duration of transport itself
• Managing western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuilginosus ocydromus) populations with deslorelin
• Measurement of corticosterone in chicken eggs is confounded by cross-reacting gestagens
• Moving distance and speed of Thoroughbred foals, one-year horses and broodmares under night and day grazing condition
• Non beak-trimmed laying pullets kept with daylight may receive diets with only plant protein sources without increasing the risk for feather pecking and cannibalism
• On-farm assessment and genetic improvement of calf temperament
• Owner attributes and recreational horse ownership in Victoria, Australia
• Personality, hand preference and welfare of primates
• Physiological response to isolation in Merino ewes of differing temperament
• Piglet preference for temperature and flooring, and the use of creep space at different temperatures
• Problem solving in dingoes (Canis lupus dingo): an example using the detour task
• Relationships of acute stress responses with plasma oxytocin in heifer calves
• Reliability of categorical versus continuous scoring of welfare indicators: lameness in cows as a case study
• Sizes and shapes of gaps large enough for masked palm civets (Paguma larvata) to enter
• The attitudes of UK sheep farmers towards fostering methods: a national survey
• The buck stops here – stress of semen collection
• The change of the height of residual ration on trough in a free-stall barn
• The distribution of cat and kitten admissions to RSPCA animal shelters in Queensland, Australia and risk factors for euthanasia (a pilot study)
• The effect of anxiety on memory and learning performance in sheep
• The effect of fetal programming on offspring coping and cognition
• The effect of screen flicker rate on hens’ discrimination of visual stimuli
• The effects of a modified stall on gestating sow behavior and performance
• The impact of an oral distraction in cattle during a painful procedure
• The impact of transition to a new housing system on milking cows’ behaviour patterns
• The influence of breed on canine ageing
• The relationship between dog ownership and the ability to recognize human facial emotion
• The relationship between milk traits and behavioural characteristics of newly calved cows after introduction to new social group
• The use of heart rate variability as a novel method to differentiate between affective states
• Validation of onset data loggers as a tool to measure lying behavior in dairy cattle
• Variability in neonatal behaviour in single and twin lambs
• Variability in responses to novelty by feral horses and donkeys in a wildlife sanctuary
• Whole house culling of hens for disease purposes using carbon dioxide: behaviour, gas levels and temperature

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