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City noise affects health and birdsong
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...
Prenatal stress affects anxiety-related behavior and the well-being of sows
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...
Better Detection of Pain in Donkeys to Improve Their Well-Being
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: Dogs with Serious Heart Conditions
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...
Training through punishment compromises a dog’s well-being
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...
Retirement and End of Life Care for Equines: How Can We Meet Future Needs?
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...
Well-being: Brachycephalic dogs suffer from more health conditions
While flat-faced or brachycephalic dogs are very popular, they often suffer from serious respiratory, eye, digestive, and skin conditions that result in a reduced quality of lif...
Slower-growing chickens enjoy better well-being
A new independent study shows that slower-growing broiler chickens are healthier and have a better quality of life than breeds that grow more quickly to meet the demands of the...
Predicting and Preventing Fractures in Racehorses
A study of the skeletons of various horses shows that racehorses are not adequately prepared for the extreme mechanical stresses they endure during a race. The resulting injurie...
Cows' social networks: A Key Factor in Their Health and Well-Being
To date, our understanding of social connections and bonds among cows remains limited. However, these connections are believed to have a significant impact on the animals’ healt...
Relieving Post-Traumatic Stress in Dogs
Everyone is familiar, in one way or another, with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in humans, but did you know that your four-legged companions can also suffer from it? The...
Drones and Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue of Birds in Agricultural Settings
Ground nests of birds in rural areas are vulnerable to agricultural activities and machinery that plow fields every spring. Researchers have developed a new system that, when pa...