Animal Welfare - Content and Abstracts

Volume 5

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Volume 5 Number 1

February 1996

1. People's willingness to pay for farm animal welfare. R M Bennett
2. On comparing the behaviour of zoo housed animals with wild conspecifics as a welfare indicator. J S Veasey, N K Waran and R J Young
3. Rearing pigs in species-specific family groups. B Wechsler
4. Space utilization by captive-born baboons (Papio sp.) before and after provision of structural enrichment. A L Kessel and L Brent
5. Stress hormone responses of sheep to food and water deprivation at high and low ambient temperatures. R F Parrott, D M Lloyd and J A Goode
6. The external locations of harpoon minke whales taken in Antartic commercial whaling operations, 1978/79 season. P B Best
7. Assessment of motivation in the lizard, Chalicides ocellatus.
   T M Skelton, N K Waran and R J Young
8. Welfare implications of the gas stunning of pigs 2. Stress induction of anaesthesia. A B M Raj and N G Gregory

Volume 5 Number 2

May 1996

1. Is broiler breeder welfare improved by using qualitative rather than quantative food restriction to limit growth rate?
   C J Savory, P M Hocking, J S Mann and M H Maxwell
2. The effects of different types of feeding enhancements on the behaviour of single-caged, yearling rhesus macaques.
   S J Schapiro, S A Suarez, L M Porter and M A Bloomsmith
3. On comparing the behaviour of zoo housed animals with wild conspecifics as a welfare indicator, using the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) as a model. J S Veasey, N K Waran and R J Young
4. Behaviour of silver foxes in traditional breeding boxes and in boxes with an entrance tunnel. B O Braastad
5. Effects of group housing and oral corticosterone administration on weight gain and locomotor development in neonatal rats.
   L A Young, G Pavlovska-Teglia, G Stodulski and J Hau
6. Contrasts in diet amongst barbary macaques on Gibraltar: human influences. H O'Leary
7. Behavioural time-budgets and beak related behaviour in floor-housed turkeys. B O Hughes and P N Grigor

Volume 5 Number 3

August 1996

1. Animal welfare: evolution and erosion of a moral concept.
   F R Stafleu, F J Grommers and J Vorstenbosch
2. Ethics of interventions for the welfare of free-living wild animals.
   J K Kirkwood and A W Sainsbury
3. Stereotypic behaviour in wild caught and laboratory bred bank voles (Clethrionymus glareolus). J J Cooper and C J Nicol
4. Handling, bruising and dehydration of cattle at the time of slaughter.
   A M Jarvis, C D A Messer and M S Cockram
5. The effect of moving bait on the behaviour of captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). B G Williams, N K Waran, J Carruthers and R J Young
6. Preferences of laboratory mice for characteristics of soiling sites.
   C M Sherwin
7. The effect of translocation on a social group of badgers (Meles meles).
   J A Brown and C L Cheeseman

Volume 5 Number 4

November 1996

1. Effects of lighting on the welfare of domestic poultry: a review. C E Manser
2. Space requirement stipulations for caged non-human primates in the United States: a critical review. V Reinhardt, C Liss and C Stevens
3. Spontaneous activities of captive performing bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). L Galhardo, M C Appleby, N K Waran and M E dos Santos
4. Introducing dogs into kennels: prediction of social tendancies to facilitate integration. S M Sonderegger and D C Turner
5. Welfare by design: the natural selection of welfare criteria.
   C J Barnard and J L Hurst
6. An assessment of stress caused in sheep by watching slaughtering of other sheep. M H Anil, J Preston, J L McKinstry, R G Rodway and S N Brown.

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