Domestic animals often seek and enjoy interacting with humans. Positive human–animal
relationships can elicit positive emotions and other positive welfare outcomes. Nevertheless …

The millennia-old practices of horse training markedly predate and thus were isolated from
the mid-twentieth century revelation of animal learning processes. From this standpoint, the …

In recent years, zoos and aquaria have intensified efforts to develop approaches and tools
for assessing the welfare of populations and individual animals in their care. Advances …

When living in a group, individuals have to make trade‐offs, and compromise, in order to
balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals …

The concept of the human–animal relationship (HAR) is widely used in farm animal research
to describe the outcome of the different qualities and quantities of interaction between …

Building upon the success of the Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science and completing
Volumes I and II of the Second Edition, Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Second …

Husbandry training and environmental enrichment are both important advancements
associated with current behavioural welfare practices. Additionally, the use of training …

There is considerable evidence that primates housed under impoverished conditions
develop behavioural abnormalities, including, in the most extreme example, self-harming …

This paper describes experimental techniques with head-fixed, operantly conditioned
rodents that allow the control of stimulus presentation and tracking of motor output at hitherto …

Stereotypic behavior is an important indicator of compromised welfare. Zoo elephants are
documented to perform stereotypic behavior, but the factors that contribute to performance …