Beyond Cortisol! Physiological Indicators of Welfare for Dogs: Deficits, Misunderstandings and Opportunities [PDF]
This paper aims to initiate new conversations about the use of physiological indicators when assessing the welfare of dogs. There are significant concerns about construct validity - whether the measures used accurately reflect welfare. The goal is to provide recommendations for future inquiry and encourage debate.
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The UFAW Courier. Published by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. Price 3d. [PDF]
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Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that they may serve as potentially useful indicators for inferring animal welfare.
Michael P. Mcloughlin+2 more
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Scientific Opinion on the use of animal‐based measures to assess welfare in pigs
Animal‐based measures, identified on the basis of scientific evidence, can be used effectively in the evaluation of the welfare of on‐farm pigs in relation to laws, codes of practice, quality assurance schemes and management.
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
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AniMer: Animal Pose and Shape Estimation Using Family Aware Transformer [PDF]
Quantitative analysis of animal behavior and biomechanics requires accurate animal pose and shape estimation across species, and is important for animal welfare and biological research. However, the small network capacity of previous methods and limited multi-species dataset leave this problem underexplored.
arxiv
The Natural History of the Otter (The Otter Report). By Marie N. Stephens. The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, 10s. 6d.; or, for members of the Fauna Preservation Society, through the Society, 7s. 6d. [PDF]
G. F.
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Guidance on Good Practice in Conducting Scientific Assessments in Animal Health using Modelling
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) asked the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare to develop a guidance document on Good Practice in Conducting Scientific Assessments in animal health using modelling.
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
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Multi Modal Information Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Data for Decoding Dairy Cow Vocalizations in Animal Welfare Assessment [PDF]
Understanding animal vocalizations through multi-source data fusion is crucial for assessing emotional states and enhancing animal welfare in precision livestock farming. This study aims to decode dairy cow contact calls by employing multi-modal data fusion techniques, integrating transcription, semantic analysis, contextual and emotional assessment ...
arxiv
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare: Major C. W. Hume, O.B.E. [PDF]
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