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- Birds Section
- Cattle Section
- Companion Animals Section
- Ecology and Conservation Section
- Equids Section
- Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behaviour and Emotion Section
- Pigs Section
- Public Policy, Politics and Law Section
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- Small Ruminants Section
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Section Board for 'Animal Welfare' (74)
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Interests: animal behavior; primates; 3Rs; animal disease models; animal welfare; cell-based therapies; metabolic disease; surgery; transplantation
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Interests: animal and human behavanimal and human behaviour; cognition; emotions; applications to antisocial behaviour; overeating and obesity and animal welfareiour; overeating and obesity and animal welfare
Interests: environmental enrichment; stereotypic behavior; zoo animal welfare; behavioral indicators of welfare; welfare epidemiology; elephant behavior; elephant management; zoo design; animal agency
2. Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland and Foundation Director, Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Interests: animal welfare; animal ethics; captive animal management; heavy metals in animals
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Special Issue in Animals: Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Farm Animal Welfare
Special Issue in Animals: Special Issue for IECA2020
Special Issue in Animals: Global Sustainability and Animals: Welfare, Policies and Technologies
Interests: animal behaviour and welfare; chimpanzees; monkeys; macaques
Interests: behavioral management; animal welfare; temperament; stress reactivity; macaques
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Interests: animal welfare; poultry welfare; broiler chickens; automated assessment; animal consciousness; bird vision; commercial research
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Interests: lateralization; fish; cognition; asymmetry, side bias
Interests: farm animal behavior and well-being
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Interests: cognition; mice; behaviour
Interests: laboratory animals; welfare, behavior; housing; environmental enrichment
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Interests: dogs; cats; behaviour; animal welfare; stress; comparative medicine: diseases in humans and animals; cognitive dysfunction; epilepsy; microbiota
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Interests: animal behaviour; animal ecology; animal health and welfare; farm and captive animals
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Special Issue in Animals: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and Group Level
Special Issue in Animals: Animal Welfare Assessment Protocol
Interests: zoo animal and wildlife; welfare; behavior; endocrinology; personality; noninvasive hormone monitoring; stress
Interests: laying hen; broiler; broiler breeder; free-range; keel bone; behavior; animal welfare; housing
Interests: behavior; animal welfare; stress; pig; farming
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Interests: adipokines; orexins; cannabinoids; immunohistochemical techniques; domestic animals; exocrine glands; genital tract; diets; metabolism
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Interests: environment/pollution/water quality effect on fish; fish disease; fish immunity; fish pathology; fish physiology; fish welfare; in vitro alternatives
Interests: welfare and behavior of cattle; estrus regulation and detection in cattle; housing and animal husbandry of cattle (and horses); welfare during transport
Interests: laboratory animal medicine
Interests: immunology; microbiology; innate immunity
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Interests: laying hens; Hanwoo cattle; nutrition of small ruminants
Interests: laboratory animal sciences; animal welfare; anesthesiology
Interests: arthropods; insect vectors; vector-borne diseases; vector control; medical entomology; dirofilariosis; zoonosis; animal; human
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Interests: welfare; heat stress; environmental health; temperature
2. Lindsay Matthews & Associates Research International,Viale Mario Torinese 38, Scerne di Pineto, 64025 Teramo, Italy
Interests: animal welfare; livestock behaviour; animal motivation
Interests: pain; analgesia; rat; mouse; mice; rabbit; anaesthesia; meloxicam; carprofen; buprenorphine; self-administration; behaviour; automated behaviour analysis
2. Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: stress and environmental physiology; sow housing; maternal-fetal interaction; prenatal stress; and effects of the environment on immune status; behavior; and well-being of swine and other livestock
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Interests: design and implementation of animal welfare studies and analyses
Interests: animal welfare program
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Interests: mother-offspring interactions; offspring survival and development; animal welfare; animal behaviour; sheep welfare; welfare assessment techniques
Interests: ethical review and the refinement of animal care and use to reduce suffering and improve welfare
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Interests: stress physiology; pain assessment; electronic identification; transport; handling; stunning; euthanasia; welfare
Interests: animal production; animal physiology; meat quality; animal husbandry; meat science; animal welfare
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Interests: animal welfare; welfare assessment; pain; breathlessness; dyspnoea; wildlife welfare; animal behaviour; conservation welfare
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Interests: animal emotions; acoustic communication; animal cognition; vocal expression of emotions; ungulate behaviour; animal welfare
Interests: companion animal; dog; cat; horse; welfare; behaviour; epidemiology; cohort study; training; personality
Interests: animal welfare (in general); husbandry practices; thermoregulation; horse welfare; dairy calf welfare; suckling systems; welfare at slaughter; animal ethics; animal welfare legislation
Interests: transdermal drug delivery; pulmonary therapeutics and the control of inflammation; wildlife ecology and therapeutics
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Interests: animal welfare; animal behaviour; human-animal relationships; meat quality; slaughter stress; transport stress; social behaviour; farm animals
Interests: transport; handling; stress; welfare; environmental enrichment; stunning; behavior; slaughter; temperament; ethology
2. Service for animal Welfare in the University Teaching and Scientific Facilities, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: animal welfare; veterinary legislation; ethics; animal used for experimental purposes; animal health (ruminants)
Interests: welfare of laboratory rodents; indicators and assessment
Interests: animal welfare; animal behaviour; behavioural ecology; poultry; avian olfaction; early developmental conditions
2. Institute of Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Interests: laboratory animal science; animal welfare; animal behavior
Interests: animal welfare; animal behaviour; small ruminants; cattle; milk; wildlife conservation
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Interests: livestock; biodiversity; alternative housing systems; animal welfare; product quality
Interests: precision livestock farming; animal welfare; milking management; milking systems; wearable technologies; mechanization of livestock farms; ergonomic and safety issues; energy and environmental sustainability of dairy farms; smart glasses for augmented reality; logistics of milk collection
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy Powered Irrigation Systems: Addressing the Challenge to Improve Performances, Sustainability and Economy of Agricultural Productions
Special Issue in Animals: Innovations in Livestock Farms
Interests: ethology; animal welfare; poultry (laying hens); pigs; and precision livestock farming
Interests: applied behaviour and animal welfare; applied ethology; agroecology
Interests: applied animal behaviour; animal welfare assessment; acceptability of animal-based products
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Interests: behavior; physiology; animal welfare; cognitive ethology; brain lateralization
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Special Issue in Animals: Advanced Research in Animal Communication
Interests: animal welfare; animal behavior; laboratory animals and education
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Special Issue in Animals: Deep Learning and Animal Welfare
Interests: neuroendocrinology; endocrinology; animal welfare; animal science; stress; behavior; biomedical sciences; animal reproduction
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Interests: poultry; welfare; broiler; behaviour
Interests: animal welfare; animal models for human disease; behaviour in farm animals; neurobiology in farm animals
Interests: animal welfare; animal behaviour; animal production; poultry welfare; horses welfare; beef and dairy cattle welfare
2. Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1870 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Interests: animal ethics; animal welfare; social science
Interests: equine internal and sports medicine; exercise physiology; horse behavior and welfare; equitation science; animal behavior and welfare; animal transport; human-animal interaction; animal welfare science
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Special Issue in Animals: Live Animal Transportation: A Risk for Animal and Human Health and Welfare
Special Issue in Animals: Horse Transport
Interests: animal behaviour; animal ethics; animal welfare; primatology; research methods; 3Rs
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Interests: human-animal bond; animal pain; pain assessment and quantification; pain management; artificial intelligence; pharmacology
Interests: pigs; social behaviour; Animal Behaviour and Welfare
Interests: diseases of laboratory animals; toxicologic pathology; research animal anesthesia; analgesia; euthanasia; animal welfare
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Special Issue in Animals: Pain Management in Animals
Special Issue in Animals: Euthanasia of Animals
Interests: animal welfare; animal behavior; welfare at slaughter
Interests: animal welfare; pain mitigation; pain measurement and evaluation; pharmacology of analgesic drugs
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Interests: meat inspection; meat science; slaughtering technique; animal welfare; hygiene; chemical contamination; post-mortem inspection; ante-mortem inspection
Interests: animal behaviour; animal welfare; welfare assessment; injurious pecking; sleep and rest in broilers
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Interests: animal welfare; policy; veterinary ethics, one welfare
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Interests: comparative analgesia; development of centrl pain pathways; mechanisms of anaesthesia
Interests: animal welfare and ethics
Interests: disasters; welfare; equine; neonatal; neurology
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2. The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
Interests: positive animal welfare; positive emotions; environmental enrichment; play behaviour; neural effects of environmental enrichment
Interests: animal welfare; animal ethics; assurance; agriculture
Interests: animal cognition; animal welfare; human-animal relationships; animal sentience; qualitative behaviour assessment