Zoonoses, biting incidents, hereditary problems, and other issues can threaten the welfare of both humans and dogs. The Dutch government and animal welfare organizations seem to have little effect in their campaigns to influence the behavior of (potential) dog keepers, who can experience dissonance when …

Het welzijn van de goeldi tamarins in Artis is onbekend, omdat in Artis nog geen onderzoek is gedaan naar het welzijn van deze soort. Onderdelen van welzijn zijn gezondheid, natuurlijk gedrag en gevoel en emotie. Dierentuin Artis heeft nog geen gegevens over de natuurlijke gedragingen in Artis. Ook is …

Elasmobranchen, beter bekend als haaien en roggen, worden algemeen gehouden in aquaria over de hele wereld. Aquariumwelzijn is onder bestudeerd in vergelijking met terrestrische dieren in gevangenschap. Hoewel ze op grote schaal worden gehouden, zijn er maar weinig gepubliceerde studies die het welzijn …

Social dominance in cattle is important when resources are scarce and competitive situations occur such as in a queue in front of an automated milking system (AMS). We aimed to 1) create and validate an algorithm to automatically register waiting time in front of an AMS (WT_AMS) for individual cows and …

Several studies have suggested that precision livestock farming (PLF) is a useful tool foranimal welfare management and assessment. Location, posture and movement of an individual are key elements in identifying the animal and recording its behaviour. Currently, multiple technologies are available for …

Parasitoids lay their eggs in or on a host, usually another insect. During foraging, parasitoids can encounter insects that differ in terms of host suitability and quality. At one extreme end of this spectrum are non-hosts that are unsuitable for offspring development.Non-hosts are generally ignored …

Communal breeding, wherein multiple conspecifics live and reproduce together, may generate short-term benefits in terms of defence and reproduction. However, its carry-over effects remain unclear. We experimentally tested the effects of communal breeding on parental care and reproduction in burying beetles …

Even in well-studied organisms, it is often challenging to uncover the social and environmental determinants of fitness. Typically, fitness is determined by a variety of factors that act in concert, thus forming complex networks of causal relationships. Moreover, even strong correlations between social …

Animals can alter their foraging behavior through associative learning, where an encounter with an essential resource (e.g., food or a reproductive opportunity) is associated with nearby environmental cues (e.g., volatiles). This can subsequently improve the animal’s foraging efficiency. However, when …

De melkgeitensector heeft de laatste jaren een gestage ontwikkeling doorgemaakt van arbeidsintensief naar een steeds meer geautomatiseerde sector. Een van de mogelijkheden in melkgeitenhouderij om te automatiseren is het voeren en het aanschuiven van het ruwvoer. Deze automatiseringen in de sector is …