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Wildlife conservation: The importance of individual personality traits and sentience
Get PDFIndividual differences in personality types within the same species have been studied much less than differences between species and populations. Personality differences are related to risk-taking and exploration, which in turn correlate with individuals\u27 daily responses, decisions, and fitness. Bold and shy personality types can have different advantages and disadvantages under different social or environmental pressures. Analyzing personality differences has helped clarify how elk habituate to a well-populated area and how management strategies can be adapted to them. For wolves newly repatriated to Colorado, individual personality factors are likely to prove important for adapting to their new homes as well as to the needs of the people cohabiting them. Animal and human factors need to be investigated jointly for the long-term success of conservation initiatives
Vultures in India & Bats in USA: Impact on Animal Welfare & Human Health
Get PDFDiscover how declining vultures in India and bats in the USA impact human health, ecosystems, and the economy, revealing crucial wildlife-environment links
Understanding the welfare of aquarium fish
Get PDFBony fishes (Osteichthyes) are prevalent in public and domestic aquaria, yet evidence-based welfare practices exist for only a limited number of species. Oldfield & Bonano’s (O&B’s) target article highlights critical questions about the wellbeing and sociality of Osteichthyes. Advancing research on their biology, physiology, psychology, and behavior is essential to develop and validate welfare measures, ensuring guidelines for welfare-focused housing and husbandry
What do echolocating bats perceive?
Get PDFDonald Griffin, who discovered that bats use echolocation to orient in the dark, also reintroduced to scientific consideration the question of whether animals are consciously aware of their worlds. What bats perceive by echolocation has become an important variant of the question. Bats sense the surrounding scene but use intrinsically auditory representations in which the timing of neural responses to their broadcasts and echoes directly affects what they perceive. They do not seem to transpose pulses and echoes entirely into vision-like spatial neural displays, but instead retain the timing of responses as a cause of perception
Australian Cats: Making a Difference
Get PDFThis article documents the positive impacts of humane urban cat management
Communicating Animals: A Doctor Dolittle Story
No full textArtificial intelligence and machine learning approaches are opening new opportunities to understand what animals say
Celebrating the Adventures of Owney and Boji: How Two Famous Dogs Captured Hearts Across Generations
No full textFollow the incredible journeys of Owney, the 19th-century mail train rider, and Boji, Istanbul’s modern-day commuter dog. Learn how these remarkable dogs inspired love, loyalty, and fascination in people across the world, even from a distance
Animals and Healthy Ecosystems: It’s Complicated!
Get PDFWild animals, especially large animals, increase the biodiversity of ecosystems
Human-Animal Interactions and Edibility?
Get PDFDoes a growing pet-keeping culture affect other human-animal interactions