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  • LFS Students to Represent UBC at U21 Conference

    Three APBI Applied Animal Biology students–Katie Mills, Eugenia Kwok and Tiffany Tse–have been selected by UBC as the University’s delegates to the U21 conference.

  • Undergraduate Students Win at MURC

    Undergraduate Students Win at MURC

    Four APBI 398 students placed in the top 3 for oral presentations at the 2014 UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference.

  • “Fish have feelings too”

    Recent research from UBC’s Animal Welfare Program has inspired an Editorial in Nature, the world’s leading scientific journal, provocatively entitled “Fish have feelings too.” The Editorial argues for a re-examination of our ethical obligations to the animals we use in research, including fish that are rapidly becoming the most used animals in research laboratories.

  • Research on Sickness Behaviour Featured in Latest Issue of Progressive Dairyman

    Katy Proudfoot and Julie Huzzey, alumni of UBC’s Animal Welfare Program, just published an article in Progressive Dairyman summarizing the Program’s research on understanding the relationship between dairy cattle behavior and health. Katy Proudfoot has recently been appointed as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Veterinary Medicine at The Ohio State University College of…

  • Pair housing makes for smarter calves

    Dairy calves are typically separated from their mothers and housed by themselves for the first 6 to 8 weeks of life. A new study, published by in PLoS One by researchers in UBC’s Animal Welfare Program, shows that calves raised individually have a harder time learning compared to calves socially housed with another calf. Calves…

  • Fish euthanasia research featured in Nature

    Today’s issue of Nature covers recent research by UBC’s Animal Welfare Program, highlighting more humane methods for the killing and anaesthesia of laboratory fish. To learn more see our previous post on this topic.

  • PhD graduate appointed as BC SPCA Chief Scientific Officer

    Sara Dubois recently completed her PhD with UBC’s Animal Welfare Program and has now been appointed as the BC SPCA’s first Chief Scientific Officer. The BC SPCA is the first animal welfare organization in Canada to establish such a position.

  • Liv Baker: Translocation stress in Stephens’ kangaroo rats

    Liv Baker: Translocation stress in Stephens’ kangaroo rats

    Liv Baker’s PhD dissertation studied the effects of translocation on kangaroo rats, and how stressors during translocation can compromise the animals’ ability to cope.

  • Killing them softly – new research shows a better way for euthanizing laboratory fish

    Killing them softly – new research shows a better way for euthanizing laboratory fish

    A new study just published on the open access journal PLoS ONE shows how practices in research laboratories can be made more animal friendly.

  • A little privacy please?

    A new study has found that dairy cows seek privacy when giving birth. Cows are typically moved to a ‘maternity area’ when they due to calve, but until now there has been little information available about what this area should look like from the cow’s perspective. Researchers created a pen that allowed cows to choose…