Scientific Papers - 2008

Where available, links to the author abstract and full paper are given. Comment by Compassion in World Farming on selected research papers is given in grey.

2008

Feuerstein, A. and Terkel, J. (2009)
Interrelationships of dogs (Canis familiaris) and cats (Felis catus L.) living under the same roof
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 113 (1-3): 150-165

Bekoff, M. (2008)
Why “good welfare” isn’t “good enough”: Minding animals and increasing our compassion footprint.
Ann Rev Biomed Sci., 10: T1-T14.

Keywords: Cognitive ethology ; animal minds; animal welfare; animal emotions; compassionate footprint.

Broom, D. (2008)
Minority Opinion: Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare on a request from the European Commission on Animal Welfare Aspects of Husbandry Systems for Farmed European Eel.
The EFSA Journal, 809: Annex II, 1-19.
Open-access article

Keywords: Fish; neuroanatomy; European Eel; farmed fish welfare; sentience; pain.

Buchen,L. (2008)
Swiss primate legislation could end some brain research.
Scientific American, Sept 10, 2008.

Keywords: Macaques; neuroscience; animal research.

Butler, A. (2008b)
Evolution of brains, cognition, and consciousness.
Brain Research Bulletin, 75 (2008): 442-449.

Keywords: Pallium; neocortex; dorsal ventricular ridge; thalamocortical system; mammals; birds.

Damasio, A. and Meyer, K. (2008)
Behind the looking-glass.
Nature, 454: 167-168.

Keywords: Macaques; mirror neurons; responsiveness.

Dicke, U. and Roth, G. (2008)
Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind.
Scientific American, August 28, 2008.

Keywords: Human intelligence; primate cognition; cerebral cortex.

McLeman, M. et al. (2008)
Social discrimination of familiar conspecifics by juvenile pigs, Sus scrofa: Development of a non-invasive method to study the transmission of unimodal and bimodal cues between live stimuli.
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 115: 123-137.

Keywords: Pig; learning; social discrimination; Y-maze.

Patton, P. (2008)
One World, Many Minds: Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom.
Scientific American, December, 2008.

Keywords: Brain evolution; fish; reptiles; human mind.

Prior, H., Schwarz, A., and Gunturkun, O. (2008)
Mirror-induced Behavior in the Magpie (Pica pica) : Evidence of self-recognition.
PLoS Biol., 6 (8): e202.
Open-access article

Keywords: Magpie; Pica pica; self recognition; evolution.

Yue, S., Moccia, R. and Duncan, I. (2008)
Investigating fear in domestic rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, using an avoidance learning task.
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 87 (3): 343-354.

Keywords: Fish; fear; avoidance; learning; memory; animal welfare.

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