Each year, approximately 100 million sharks die at the hands of humans, with at least half of that number targeted in fisheries, and the remainder perishing as bycatch. This is happening at a much ...

Injurious self-biting is one of the most serious problems in primate colonies (Niemeyer, Gray, & Stephen, 1996). "Approximately 10% of captive, individually-housed monkeys engage in the disturbing ...

Guidance for Advocates and Attorneys for Domestic Violence Survivors 1 This guide is intended to serve as a resource 2 to help advocates and attorneys get pets of domestic violence (DV) survivors ...

Laboratory animal facilities have traditionally held rabbits in individual cages, regardless of the type of experiment that the animals are involved in. For many investigations, group-housing would ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) works to reduce animal suffering and promote the welfare of all animals, including animals in agriculture. As a part of our mission, we promote humane farming ...

Case Name: Animal Welfare Institute, et al. v. Beech Ridge Energy, LLC, et al. Nature of Case: The Animal Welfare Institute and its co-plaintiffs brought claims against Beech Ridge Energy, LLC and its ...

Address for correspondence: Viktor Reinhardt, 6014 Palmer Drive, Weed, CA 96094, USA; E-mail: [email protected] The question was raised how the environment of guinea pigs can be best enriched in the ...

We discuss the properties of controllability and complexity in novel object enrichment, their definition and present a critique of previous work related to them. We address the relationship between ...

San Francisco Zoological Gardens, U.S.A. In In the wild, foraging for food occupies much of a primate's day. Considerable energy is expended as the animal travels its range in its search for food.

The author reviews improvements in the behavioral management of a colony of captive chimpanzees at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. Environmental enrichment techniques, such as ...

"What is the best strategy to capture animals who escape from their primary enclosure? It's my experience with group- and single-housed rhesus and stump-tailed macaques that catching animals who get ...