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Play behaviour positively relates to weight gain, feeding behaviour and drinking behaviour in weaner pigs (Sus scrofa)
Contributor(s):: Franchi, Guilherme A., Larsen, Mona L. V., Kristoffersen, Ida H., Winters, Jeanet F. M., Pedersen, Lene Juul, Jensen, Margit Bak
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Pre-weaning social behaviours and peripheral serotonin levels are associated with behavioural and physiological responses to weaning and social mixing in pigs
Contributor(s):: Clouard, Caroline, Resmond, Rémi, Vesque-Annear, Héloïse, Prunier, Armelle, Merlot, Elodie
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The interconnection of hierarchy, affiliative behaviours, and social play shapes social dynamics in Maremmana beef cattle
Contributor(s):: Bagnato, Samuel, Pedruzzi, Luca, Goracci, Jacopo, Palagi, Elisabetta
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Play and welfare in domestic cats: Current knowledge and future directions
Contributor(s):: Henning, J. S. L., Fernandez, E. J., Nielsen, T., Hazel, S.
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Preliminary efficacy of occupational therapy in an equine environment for youth with autism spectrum disorder
Contributor(s):: Peters, B. Caitlin, Wood, Wendy, Hepburn, Susan, Moody, Eric J.
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Relationships between owner and household characteristics and enrichment and cat behaviour
Contributor(s):: Windschnurer, Ines, Häusler, Andrea, Waiblinger, Susanne, Coleman, Grahame J.
2022Applied Animal Behaviour Science2471055620168-159110.1016/j.applanim.2022.105562text
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The Effect of Play Group on the Behavior of Shelter Dogs
| Contributor(s):: Stephanie Flower
This study looked at two groups of dogs, one which attended play group prior to receiving their behavior evaluation and one that did not. The group that attended play group showed significantly lower scores when looking at the dog to dog portion of the behavior evaluation.
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Potential Risk Factors for Aggression and Playfulness in Cats: Examination of a Pooling Fallacy Using Fe-BARQ as an Example
| Contributor(s):: Noema Gajdoš Kmecová, Barbara Petková, Jana Kottferová, Rachel Sarah Wannell, Daniel Simon Mills
Using a popular method of behaviour evaluation which rates the intensity of behaviour in different contexts, we demonstrate how pooling item scores relating to a given construct can reveal different potential risk factors for the dependent variable depending on how the total score is...
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Species and Psyche: Anthropomorphism and Environmentalism in Human-Animal Metafiction
| Contributor(s):: Surendranathan, Hema
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Back to the Future: A Glance Over Wolf Social Behavior to Understand Dog–Human Relationship
| Contributor(s):: Giada Cordoni, Elisabetta Palagi
This review focuses on wolf sociobiology to delineate the traits of cooperative baggage driven by natural selection (wolf-wolf cooperation) and better understand the changes obtained by artificial selection (dog-human cooperation). We selected some behaviors of the dog’s...
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Inexperienced but still interested – Indoor-only cats are more inclined for predatory play than cats with outdoor access
| Contributor(s):: Shajid Pyari, Muhzina, Uccheddu, Stefania, Lenkei, Rita, Pongrácz, Péter
Many companion cats (Felis catus) in industrialised countries are raised under human supervision and often kept completely indoors. Even if we assume that cats were not selected intentionally against hunting behaviour, we can still hypothesize that because of the differences in their epigeny and...
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Play Behavior in Two Captive Bottlenose Dolphin Calves (Tursiops Truncatus): Ethogram, Ontogeny, and Individual Differences
| Contributor(s):: Soriano Jimenez, Ana Isabel, Drago, Massimiliano, Vinyoles, Dolors, Maté, Carmen
This research focused on different aspects of play behavior including ethogram, ontogeny, and individual differences, in one male and one female captive bottlenose dolphin calves (Tursiops truncatus) from November 2003 to June 2004. We presented the first peer-reviewed description of a play...
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Development of a welfare assessment protocol for dairy calves from birth through to weaning
| Contributor(s):: Barry, J., Kennedy, E., Sayers, R., de Boer, I. J. M., Bokkers, E. A. M.
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Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare
| Contributor(s):: Spinka, M.
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What can kinematics tell us about the affective states of animals?
| Contributor(s):: Guesgen, M. J., Bench, C. J.
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Exploring the Role of Playfulness with Canine Companions in Coping with Stress: How Men Are Impacted by Human–Animal Interaction Through Calling on a Memory of Play
| Contributor(s):: Mary Harlinger, Chris Blazina
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Exploring the Role of Playfulness with Canine Animal Companions in Coping with Stress
| Contributor(s):: Mary Harlinger
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Dances with dogs: interspecies play and a case for sympoietic enactivism
| Contributor(s):: Merritt, M.
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Play behaviour reduced by environmental enrichment in fast-growing broiler chickens
| Contributor(s):: Liu, Zhenzhen, Torrey, Stephanie, Newberry, Ruth C., Widowski, Tina
The objective of this study was to evaluate effects of environmental enrichment on play behaviour in fast-growing broiler chickens. Chicks (19 of each sex) were randomly assigned to 6 non-enriched (NE) pens and 6 pens enriched (E) with a raised platform, hanging weighing scale, peck stone, and...
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Which types of rooting material give weaner pigs most pleasure?
| Contributor(s):: Ocepek, Marko, Newberry, Ruth C., Andersen, Inger Lise
Provision of rooting material as enrichment for pigs has been primarily oriented towards reducing negative affect (suffering). Information is also needed on the impact of different types of rooting materials in promoting positive affect (pleasure). We hypothesised that repeated addition of fresh...
