Current Research Findings (published)

Separation anxiety in dogs: the implications of predictability and contextual fear for behavioural treatment

Separation anxiety (SA) is one of the most common canine behaviour problems and can have... >>

Insect emotion and consciousness

There is growing interest in the possibility that insects and other invertebrates could have emotion-like... >>

Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare

This paper outlines the collaborative process used to develop an agenda for new social science... >>

Paperwork and the decoupling of audit and animal welfare: The challenges of materiality for better regulation

This paper explores farmers’ record-keeping practices and why they do not analyze and use the... >>

Stress is cool: skin temperature reveals the intensity of acute stress in hens

Acute stress triggers peripheral vasoconstriction, causing a rapid, short-term drop in skin temperature in homeotherms.... >>

A Novel Home Cage Monitoring System for Group housed mice

Under laboratory conditions mice are housed in small groups, in caging where they can carry... >>

Behavioural differences between weaner pigs with intact and docked tails: An interview with Dr Rick D’Eath (SRUC)

Rick D’Eath, hello and congratulations to your paper on tail biting in pigs, recently published in... >>

Behavioural indicators of welfare exhibited by the common European cuttlefish

The common European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) is frequently found in public aquaria in Europe.Knowing  the ... >>

Cuttlefish in captivity: An investigation into housing and husbandry for improving welfare

On the first of January 2013 all cephalopods became protected when used in science in... >>

Staring pain in the face: Sheep Pain Facial Expression Scale (SPFES)

Sheep do not overtly express signs of pain as a prey species, making the recognition... >>