Positive animal welfare states and reference standards for welfare assessment

Positive animal welfare states and encouraging environment-focused and animal-to-animal interactive behaviours

(2014) DJ Mellor   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Enhancing animal welfare by creating opportunities for positive affective engagement

(2014) DJ Mellor   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Cognitive bias in a non-human primate: husbandry procedures influence cognitive indicators of psychological well-being in captive rhesus macaques

(2012) EJ Bethell et al.   ANIMAL WELFARE

Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive biases in pigs

(2012) Catherine Douglas et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Selection for temperament in sheep: Domain-general and context-specific traits

(2012) Ngaio J. Beausoleil et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The potential of the human–animal relationship as an environmental enrichment for the welfare of zoo-housed animals

(2011) Anna M. Claxton   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Extending ideas about animal welfare assessment to include ‘quality of life’ and related concepts

(2011) TC Green et al.   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Animal emotions, behaviour and the promotion of positive welfare states

(2011) DJ Mellor   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Measuring judgement bias and emotional reactivity in sheep following long-term exposure to unpredictable and aversive events

(2011) Rebecca E. Doyle et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

The effect of repeated testing on judgement biases in sheep

(2010) Rebecca E. Doyle et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Dogs showing separation-related behaviour exhibit a ‘pessimistic’ cognitive bias

(2010) Michael Mendl et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Systematic variation improves reproducibility of animal experiments

(2010) S Helene Richter et al.   NATURE METHODS

An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood

(2010) M. Mendl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Lives worth living?

(2010) C. Wathes   VETERINARY RECORD

Relative value of a nest box, sand floor and extra space during the breeding season in adult blue fox males

(2009) Tarja Koistinen et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms

(2009) Michael Mendl et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Release from restraint generates a positive judgement bias in sheep

(2009) Rebecca E. Doyle et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

New Zealand's inclusive science-based system for setting animal welfare standards

(2008) David J. Mellor et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Position of operant cost affects blue foxes’ time budget between sand floor and mesh floor

(2008) Tarja Koistinen et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Exploring the basis of divergent selection for ‘temperament’ in domestic sheep

(2007) Ngaio J. Beausoleil et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Implications of breaking mother–young social bonds

(2007) Ruth C. Newberry et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Assessment of positive welfare: A review

(2007) J.W. Yeates et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL