To day we have a variety of techniques for environmental enrichment used in captivity to enhance the psychological health of monkeys. Many of those concern feeding strategies.
Date created: May 13, 2016
Last updated: November 11, 2020
This article focuses on space requirements, the benefits of play and exercise, and social and environmental enrichment for the chimpanzee. But first we will very briefly review some of the behavioral damage that isolation can do to primates.
Date created: April 18, 2016
Last updated: September 16, 2020
The influence of an environmental enrichment feeding device (puzzle feeder), on activity and behaviour patterns of captive orang-utans, gorillas and chimpanzees was studied at London Zoo.
Date created: April 27, 2016
Last updated: November 11, 2020
Identifying Areas That Lack Sheltering Services for Pets of Domestic Violence Survivors
Date created: June 15, 2022
Last updated: February 28, 2024
Most of the news we receive during the pandemic is extremely dire, and the heartbreak and disruption it has caused and will continue to cause cannot be glossed over.
Date created: June 17, 2020
Last updated: June 17, 2020
An elephant, a mouse, a robin, an owl, a bat, a rattlesnake, a spider, a mosquito, a bumblebee, and a human enter a school gym. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us opens not with a joke, but with a thought experiment: How would each of these creatures perceive the colors, textures, smells, sounds, vibrations, electric and magnetic fields, and open space around them—and each other? How would this change, if at all, if the lights were turned off?
Date created: December 16, 2022
Last updated: December 20, 2022
Due to many anthropogenic threats, the gopher tortoise is declining throughout its range in the southeastern United States. Translocation—the movement of animals from one location to another—has become an increasingly important tool for mitigating impacts of development and augmenting depleted populations.
Date created: June 9, 2021
Last updated: September 1, 2022
Date created: May 4, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2020
The proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to remove protections from the nation’s only wild population of endangered red wolves has been met with near-unanimous opposition from the public. Fully 99.9 percent of more than 108,000 public comments received expressed opposition to the plan and favored strong federal protections for red wolves instead.
Date created: November 1, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Her parents told her that they noticed it about her when she was quite young - around four years old. They characterized their observation this way: "We should have bought you a soap box." Some would call her opinionated, or even stubborn. Luckily, the times changed and these kinds of people became known as "activists."
Date created: May 4, 2011
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Lonesome George, the last known Pinta giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni) in existence, has died. Galapagos National Park Service officials announced in June that George— believed to be around 100 years old—was found dead in his corral by his keeper of 40 years, Fausto Llerena.
Date created: August 10, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
The mission of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC) is to "enhance the quality of research, teaching, and testing by promoting humane, responsible animal care and use," and the organization awards accreditation to institutions that are deemed to...
Date created: May 3, 2012
Last updated: May 14, 2021
The mission of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC) is to “enhance the quality of research, teaching, and testing by promoting humane, responsible animal care and use,” and the organization awards accreditation to institutions that are deemed to “meet or exceed AAALAC standards” regarding animal care.
Date created: May 3, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
In 2013, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman established an Animal Cruelty Initiative to focus on prosecuting animal cruelty crimes and protecting consumers from unscrupulous companion animal dealers.
Date created: September 1, 2017
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Members of the public and representatives of animal protection and conservation organizations are rallying Friday in Harbor View Memorial Park in Portland, Maine, to protest Iceland’s expanding commercial whaling program, and its links to fish and other Icelandic products imported into the United States through Portland, Maine.
Date created: May 30, 2013
Last updated: February 2, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC (January 7, 2004) On Thursday, January 8th, at 12:00 p.m., demonstrators organized by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) staged a one-hour protest outside the Embassy of Ireland at 2234 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, and delivered a letter to Ambassador Fahey urging Ireland, as new holder of the European Union (EU) Presidency, to lead the way in ensuring new, humane rules on animal transport including an 8 hour total journey limit for cows and other livestock traveling to slaughter or for further fattening.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: October 13, 2020
Animals and Criminal Justice is not exhaustive, by any means, and its organization is a bit confusing, but it does shed light—especially for the reader new to the subject matter—on some of the complexities and contradictions inherent in animal-human interactions.
Date created: December 31, 2015
Last updated: April 24, 2024
How many times have you looked at your dog after he or she did something they shouldn’t and seen those soulful, apologetic eyes looking back at you? The look of guilt is obvious, but does that mean it is guilt as we understand it? How many times has your cat lain down on your laptop to say “stop ignoring me,” or acted aloof after you came back from a vacation?
Date created: December 10, 2014
Last updated: January 8, 2020
Family violence is a term that encompasses many possible relationships: Intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, and sibling violence.
Date created: September 28, 2023
Last updated: October 2, 2023
In most cases, companion animals are cherished members of the family. However, there are situations in which pets are mistreated—in the home and in the community. Surveys of domestic violence survivors reveal that up to 89% report that their pets were threatened, harmed, or killed by their abuser. Research also indicates that animal abuse and other forms of family violence, such as child abuse, elder abuse, and sibling violence, frequently occur in the same household.
Date created: June 27, 2011
Last updated: October 2, 2023
Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild, by Barbara King, uses the power of storytelling to allow readers to peer into the lives of countless animals humans interact with or impact in one way or another. Through these stories, King challenges the reader to rethink our effect on animals in our homes, in the wild, in captivity, in agriculture, and in research labs, and presents a powerful call for compassionate action in our daily lives.
Date created: June 10, 2021
Last updated: June 23, 2021
The 114th Congress has been an active one when it comes to animal welfare measures, both good and bad. A few of the most prominent good ones are summarized below. The outcome of the appropriations process, which is currently underway, will be reviewed in a later issue of the AWI Quarterly.
Date created: September 18, 2015
Last updated: January 17, 2024
Across the United States, millions of dogs endure their entire lives confined outdoors by chains affixed to collars and staked to the ground or a fixed object. This is called "chaining" or "tethering." Typically, the animals are denied socialization with people and other animals and even basic veterinary care.
Date created: September 26, 2011
Last updated: October 30, 2019
The various contributors to the seventeen chapters of Animal Cruelty: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding address all critical aspects of the subject: history, related legislation, special types of cruelty, its link to other types of violence and crime, theories used to explain animal cruelty, the role of the media, and emerging issues.
Date created: August 23, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
An undercover investigator, Taylor Radig, put herself at significant personal risk in order to expose animal cruelty at the Quanah Cattle Company, a calf-raising facility in Kersey, Colorado. The investigator filmed appalling images of young calves being kicked, dragged, thrown, and slammed as employees removed them from trucks.
Date created: February 25, 2014
Last updated: January 10, 2020
