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John and Caesar
Contributor(s):: Erasmo de Oliveira, Erasmo Francisco de Oliveira
I want to present a case study that will bring tears to your eyes and show scientific circles that animals really are angels and that they have a life story, a mission to fulfill along with the human they came to Earth to find.
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Zoonoses transfer, factory farms and unsustainable human-animal relations
Contributor(s):: Marchese, A., Hovorka, A.
Infectious diseases are rooted in unsustainable and unjust human-animal relationships. Zoonoses are facilitated by human proximity to animals, epidemiological risk embedded within factory farms, and exploitation of animals and humans in these intensive livestock production systems. The five major...
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The Perceived and Actual Impact of Outdoor Domestic Cats on Local Ecology in Massachusetts, and the Effects of Education on Cat Owner Behavior
| Contributor(s):: Olivia Shraibati, Christian Zelaya
This project, Impact of Outdoor Cats and Educational Effects on Cat Owners, created a survey to assess the perceived ecological impact of domestic cats by residents of Massachusetts. It found that cat owners were overwhelmingly unaware of the full effects of their pet’s predation habits....
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The relaxing massage technique as a new tool to improve the human/animal relationship and the animal welfare parametersTecnica de massagem relaxante como ferramenta para melhorar a relacao humano-animal e os parametros de bem-estar animal
| Contributor(s):: Leite, L. O., Nunes-Pinheiro, D. C. S., Hotzel, M. J.
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Plasma Concentration of Advanced Glycation End-Products From Wild Canids and Domestic Dogs Does Not Change With Age or Across Body Masses
| Contributor(s):: Ana Gabriela Jimenez
Dogs provide a physiological paradox: In domestic dogs, small breeds live longer lives than large breed dogs. Comparatively, a wild canid can be a similar size than many large breed dogs and outlive their domestic cousin. We have previously shown that oxidative stress patterns between domestic...
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Domestic Cat Ethology: Evaluating Social Media for Data Collection
| Contributor(s):: Patricia Casey
This study looked at whether user-submitted videos of cats could be used to increase understanding of their behavior. The findings suggest that the behaviors observed were consistent with prior research, and contain typical cat behavior. Depending on the research question, user-submitted videos...
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Maladaptation in feral and domesticated animals
| Contributor(s):: Eben Gering, Darren Incorvaia, Rie Henriksen, Dominic Wright, Thomas Getty
Selection regimes and population structures can be powerfully changed by domestication and feralization, and these changes can modulate animal fitness in both captive and natural environments. In this review, we synthesize recent studies of these two processes and consider their impacts on...
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Epidemiological Study of Pesticide Poisoning in Domestic Animals and Wildlife in Portugal: 2014–2020
| Contributor(s):: Andreia Grilo, Anabela Moreira, Belmira Carrapiço, Adriana Belas, Berta São Braz
Nowadays the intentional poisoning of domestic and wild animals is a crime in the European Union (EU), but as in the past the poison is still used in rural areas of a number of European countries to kill animals that were considered harmful for human activities. From January 2014 up until...
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Is seeing still believing? Leveraging deepfake technology for livestock farming
| Contributor(s):: Neethirajan, S.
Deepfake technologies are known for the creation of forged celebrity pornography, face and voice swaps, and other fake media content. Despite the negative connotations the technology bears, the underlying machine learning algorithms have a huge potential that could be applied to not just digital...
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Evaluating ADHD Assessment for Dogs: A Replication Study
| Contributor(s):: Csibra, Barbara, Bunford, Nóra, Gácsi, Márta
The family dog, in its natural environment, exhibits neuropsychological deficits redolent of human psychiatric disorders, including behaviours similar to human Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms. For dogs, Vas and colleagues developed a 13-item questionnaire to measure...
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Occurrence of suspected zoophilia in veterinary clinical care in Marilia/SP in 2018-2019: veiled and neglected animal abuseOcorrencia de suspeitas de zoofilia no atendimento clinico medico-veterinario em Marilia/SP no periodo de 2018-2019: maus-trato
| Contributor(s):: Polegato, E. P. dos S., Teixeira, I. B., Angeli, M. V., Paie, J. P.
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Give the dog a big bone: Magnitude but not delivery method of food impacts preference and reinforcer efficacy in dogs
| Contributor(s):: Feuerbacher, Erica N., Stone, Chelsea, Friedel, Jonathan E.
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[SARS-CoV-2 infections in cats, dogs, and other animal species: Findings on infection and data from Switzerland]
| Contributor(s):: Chan, T., Klaus, J., Meli, M. L., Hofmann-Lehmann, R.
The pandemic with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has led to infections and deaths worldwide. Apart from humans, certain animal species are susceptible to the viral infection. Spillover between humans and animals is favored by close contact; thus, surveillance of animals is an important...
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How spontaneous is spontaneous quantity discrimination in companion dogs?
| Contributor(s):: Simona, Normando, Maria, Loconsole, Lucia, Regolin, Giovanna, Marliani, Michela, Mattioli, Elena, Pietschmann, Attilio, Accorsi Pier
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Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Domestic Dogs in the Lowland Tropics of Belize with Emphasis on Crop Protection and Subsistence Hunting
| Contributor(s):: Pacheco-Cobos, Luis, Winterhalder, Bruce
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Interdisciplinary research to advance animal welfare science: an introduction
| Contributor(s):: Camerlink, I.
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Demographic Changes in UK Rescue Centre Dog Population between 2014 and 2018
| Contributor(s):: Carter, Anne J., Martin, Jaime H.
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Human Induced Rotation and Reorganization of the Brain of Domestic Dogs
| Contributor(s):: Taryn Roberts, Paul McGreevy, Michael Valenzuela
Domestic dogs exhibit an extraordinary degree of morphological diversity. Such breed-to-breed variability applies equally to the canine skull, however little is known about whether this translates to systematic differences in cerebral organization. By looking at the paramedian sagittal magnetic...
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Duties to Socialise with Domesticated Animals: Farmed Animal Sanctuaries as Frontiers of Friendship
| Contributor(s):: Guy Scotton
I argue that humans have a duty to socialise with domesticated animals, especially members of farmed animal species: to make efforts to include them in our social lives in circumstances that make friendships possible. Put another way, domesticated animals have a claim to opportunities to...
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Evaluating and re-evaluating intra- and inter-species social transmission of food preferences in domestic dogs
| Contributor(s):: Mendez, Armando D., Hall, Nathaniel J.
