Animal Welfare Institute

Masłowska, K., Mizzoni, F., Dwyer, C. M. et al. 2020. Qualitative behavioural assessment of pain in castrated lambs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 233, 105143.

This study investigates for the first time the application of Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA) to the analysis of acute pain expression in castrated lambs. Eighty 2-day-old male lambs were ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Yon, L., Williams, E., Harvey, N. D. et al. 2019. Development of a behavioural welfare assessment tool for routine use with captive elephants. PLOS ONE 14(2), e0210783.

There has been much concern in recent years about the welfare of elephants in zoos across North America and Europe. While some previous studies have assessed captive elephant welfare at a particular ...