Animal Welfare

Urban traffic noise causes learning deficits and delays in young birds. These birds also have weakened immune systems, a sign of chronic stress. Traffic noise is ubiquitous in o...

Sows that experience prenatal stress are more anxious as adults, and when they become mothers themselves, they are less maternal toward their offspring. This finding has implica...

People say donkeys are stubborn, but veterinarians prefer to describe them as stoic. In fact, they are very good at hiding their pain, which contributes to delays in detecting t...

Boxers are prone to a rapidly progressive hereditary heart disease that is often diagnosed too late to be treated effectively. However, the discovery of a physiological biomarke...

Dogs trained using aversive stimuli become more anxious and stressed, according to a new study. If the training method relies on frequent punishment, this distressed state persi...

Despite a current trend toward a declining horse population, the growing popularity of horse riding in the 1990s and 2000s led to an increase in France’s equine population. Now...