Library
Browse resources published by our research team.
In addition to full texts of our peer-reviewed articles, our library includes research digests that break down our peer-reviewed articles; in-depth reports that thoroughly examine a topic; commentaries that explain the significance of particular issues in wild animal welfare science; and short communications that briefly survey a field or topic.
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Capturing wild animal welfare: A physiological perspective
Beaulieu, M. (2024). Capturing wild animal welfare: A physiological perspective. Biological Reviews, 99(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13009
The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare
Hecht, L. (2021). The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare. Biological Reviews, 96(6), 2602–2616. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12769
Age-specific survivorship frames the expected value of wild animal welfare
This research note is an extension of Luke Hecht’s paper, The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare, which was published in Biological Reviews in December 2021. Luke introduces “welfare expectancy” as a framework for summing up the different levels of well-being animals might experience over the course of their lives, helping to compare the welfare consequences of interventions and natural pressures that may disproportionately affect animals of particular ages.
Assessing biomarkers of aging as measures of cumulative animal welfare
Will Bradshaw
Will Bradshaw reviews the existing empirical support for the use of biomarkers of aging as a measure of cumulative welfare, discusses the prerequisites of applying the method, and explores a number of important caveats that may limit its applicability.