Critter News
JULY 8, 2011
Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2011
Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Exploratory species, on the other hand, have lifestyles where information gathering could be useful, e.g. those living in relatively complex and changeable versus constant habitats.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror.
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