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Using fear as a training tool is less effective than positive training methods, according to leading veterinary behaviourists
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has welcomed Defra's consultation on banning the use of shock collars in England, following a sustained joint campaign by BVA and other organisations.
Commenting on the announcement, BVA President John...
Animal Welfare Foundation is a vet-led charity that was set up in 1983 with the aim of improving animal welfare
The Veterinary Marketing Association (VMA) has selected the Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) as their charity of the year.
The VMA, a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping its members achieve marketing excellence within animal health, has...
A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.
Of the species existing within this region, the authors anticipate that nearly 50 percent of...
When laboratory mice moved to the countryside where they could burrow in dirt, forage for food and generally live like ordinary mice, they became more susceptible to infection with parasitic whipworms than mice that stayed in the lab, a new study has found.
The longer the mice lived outdoors, the greater the number and size of...
Using data collected by citizen scientists, researchers have developed new, open-source algorithms to automatically detect bat echolocation calls in audio recordings. Oisin Mac Aodha, formerly of University College London, now at Caltech, and colleagues at University College London present their new approach in PLOS Computational Biology.
Nearly 80 percent of bat species use echolocation calls for...
We don't usually expect evolution to be predictable. But Hawaiian stick spiders of the Ariamnes genus have repeatedly evolved the same distinctive forms, known as ecomorphs, on different islands, researchers report on March 8 in the journal Current Biology. Ecomorphs -- which look the same and live in the same kinds of habitats, but aren't...