The AWI Quarterly is the magazine of the Animal Welfare Institute. This full-color periodical examines issues regarding animals everywhere—in the laboratory, on the farm, in commercial trade, at home, ...

Growing interest in commercial octopus farming threatens to subject these cognitively complex, sentient animals to inhumane ...

The American beaver (Castor canadensis) is a keystone species whose ponds and wetlands help replenish groundwater, serve as buffers against wildfires, and provide habitat for a wide variety of ...

Single-housed baboons provided with a large enriched activity cage [during two days each month] display dramatic changes in behavior typically considered to represent positive psychological well-being ...

A few chimps will use sticks orBarnett, C. 1997. A gravity roulette feeder for chimpanzees. The Shape of Enrichment 6 (2), 11.

The relationship between people and companion animals, on the one hand, explains the bites and zoonotic diseases that occur among those with companion animals and, on the other hand, appears to ...

There are few systematic investigations of the potential benefits of incidental touch as it occurs in medical health care settings. In the present laboratory study 60 college students participated in ...

In an [successful] effort to reduce abnormal behaviors, especially regurgitation and reingestion, and promote higher activity levels [locomoting and playing], straw and scattered forage material were ...

The ability of sheep,Ovis aries, to discriminate between sheep, humans and other animals on the basis of facial and vocal cues was tested in an enclosed Y-maze. Pairs of faces or voices were presented ...

Animal Protection Groups Call on USDA to Require Cameras Inside CO2 Stunning Areas of Pig Slaughter Plants ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders designed to advance policies that are disastrous to wildlife and their habitats. The orders expand oil and gas ...