2013 Stratton Memorial Lecture in Animal Welfare
The 2013 Stratton Memorial Lecture presents Chris Draper, Programs Manager (Captive Wild Animals/Science) Born Free Foundation.
Congratulations to Khan on new position
Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Post-doctoral fellow in UBC’s Animal Welfare Program, has recently accepted a new position as Senior Scientist with AgResearch in New Zealand. AgResearch is a crown research institute with the purpose of enhancing the value, productivity and profitability of New Zealand’s agricultural sector. Khan will be part of the Animal Nutrition & Health […]
Listen to Liv Baker’s presentation “Understanding The Individual In Wildlife Conservation”
Animal Welfare Program Ph.D. student Liv Baker recently presented her research at the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare’s (UFAW) first international conference in Barcelona, “Science in the service of animal welfare: priorities around the world”. A recording of Liv’s presentation can now be heard on-line.
Sustainability of the US Dairy Industry
Nina von Keyserlingk and other experts recently completed a review the sustainability of the U.S. Dairy industry, arguing that certain practices (see Figure) are problematic. Nina contributed especially to discussions around animal welfare and provided leadership in writing the paper.
New paper published on human-wildlife conflict features BC ‘pot’ bears
The story of the BC ‘pot’ bears became international news in summer 2010 – now PhD student Sara Dubois has recently published her 2011 community survey of Christina Lake residents in an article in the journal Animals. The two-phase phone survey of local attitudes documented varying beliefs about wildlife feeding and management actions for problem […]
Sara Dubois to present at conference on solutions to conflicts with urban wildlife
PhD student Sara Dubois will present the results of her recent research at Living With Wildlife 2013. The conference intends to bring together local government officials, farmers, wildlife rehabilitation groups, animal control agencies, academics and individual citizens to work towards humane solutions to conflicts with bears, coyotes, beavers, deer and other urban species. Sara Dubois […]
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