Two papers featured on JDS top-cited list
Two Animal Welfare Program papers, Effects of milk ration on solid feed intake, weaning, and performance in dairy heifers and Lying behavior as an indicator of lameness in dairy cows, were today recognized by the Journal of Dairy Science in their list of the 100 top-cited papers since 2010. Kiyomi Ito, first author of top-cited […]
Emotional rats
What emotions do rats experience and how can we know? A newly published article by Animal Welfare Program members Joanna Makowska and Dan Weary reviews evidence that rats experience a range of positive and negative emotion, and that these states can be assessed scientifically using a range of techniques. The authors conclude that existing standards […]
Early separation of cow and calf
Newly published in the Journal of Dairy Science is an article by Beth Ventura and colleagues with UBC’s Animal Welfare Program describing attitudes toward the common practice of separating the dairy cow and calf and birth. Results suggest that this practice is a highly contentious. Opponents of early separation contended that it is emotionally stressful […]
Nature profiles Program’s research on improved euthanasia methods for lab animals
An article in this week’s edition of the journal Nature profiles the contributions of graduate students Joanna Makowska and Devina Wong in developing more humane methods of euthanizing lab animals
Two new studies on attitudes toward the use of genetically-engineered animals in science
Post-doctoral scholar, Elisabeth Ormandy, and colleagues in the Animal Welfare Program and at the Canadian Council on Animal Care recently published two articles on the use of genetically-engineered animals in research. The first article describes public attitudes towards animal research, and the effects of invasiveness, genetic engineering, and regulation. The second article described the views […]