Understanding the affective lives of animals has been a long-standing challenge in science.
Recent technological progress in infrared thermal imaging has enabled researchers to …

Accessing animal minds has remained a challenge since the beginnings of modern science.
Here, we used a little-tried method, functional infrared thermal imaging, with wild …

Among the growing list of novel tools with which to assess animal welfare is the use of
thermal (infrared) imaging. The technology has already been utilized to identify emotional …

Simple Summary Interactions between zoo professionals and animals, such as positive
reinforcement training, occur regularly and are thought to be enriching for animals. However …

A growing trend of research using infrared thermography (IRT) has shown that changes in
skin temperature, associated with activity of the autonomic nervous system, can be reliably …

Emotion is one of the central topics in animal studies and is likely to attract attention
substantially in the coming years. Recent studies have developed a thermo-imaging …

Measuring body surface temperature changes with infrared thermography has recently been
put forward as a non-invasive alternative measure of physiological correlates of emotional …

Sensory information drives the ecology and behaviour of animals, and some animals are
able to detect environmental cues unavailable to us. For example, rattlesnakes use infrared …

Members of highly social species decode, interpret, and react to the emotion of a conspecific
depending on whether the other belongs to the same (ingroup) or different (outgroup) social …

Understanding the physiological processes that underpin primate performance is key if we
are to assess how a primate might respond when navigating new and changing …