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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Inspiring systematic inclusion of individual affective states to enhance the quality of wild animal research
Janire Castellano Bueno, Vittoria Elliott
Castellano Bueno, J., & Elliott, V. (2026). Inspiring systematic inclusion of individual affective states to enhance the quality of wild animal research. Wildlife Biology, https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01669
Quantifying the neglectedness of wild animal welfare
Michaël Beaulieu's deep dive examines the quality and quantity of mentions of wild animal welfare in the scientific literature and finds it to be a neglected research area.
Why cause of death matters for wild animal welfare
In part one of this series, Luke Hecht introduces approaches to studying wild animals’ causes of death, with the goal of making work in this field maximally useful for understanding wild animal welfare.