World Animal Day 2023

World Animal Day exists to raise the status of animals and improve welfare standards around the globe.
It’s a day of celebration for animal lovers everywhere.
On October 4, it’s our chance to mobilise into a global force, to take action against animal cruelty, neglect and unfair treatment and make the world a better place for all animals.
[From: https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/about-us/]

 

This year, we also celebrate with access to an additional World Animal Day collection from Elsevier's Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine journals, available now at: https://www.elsevier.com/health/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/journals/world-animal-day.

Table of contents

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Heliyon, Volume 9, September 2023

The study shows the results of the large-scale spatial survey for the gelada outside its perceived home range, in the northernmost part of Ethiopia.
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Heliyon, Volume 9, September 2023

The study shows the spike glycoproteins of the coronaviruses that are carried by these animals and by humans; they have a number of major structural similarities to one another.
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Heliyon, Volume 9, August 2023

The study shows the investigation concludes that the Nanowarming of cryopreserved ovarian tissue has the potential to protect the tissue from cryoinjury in sheep.
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Heliyon, Volume 9, August 2023

The study was conducted with the aim of investigating population diversification and characterization morphologically which helps to fill the gap of molecular characterization on the population of donkey.
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Journal of Veterinary Behavior, Volume 57, November 2022

Talks about the safety and environment of dogs in schools and their interactions with children.
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Veterinary Parasitology, Volume 295, July 2021

Discusses the influence of parasite prevalance in pig heards where there are better animal welfare standards.
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The Veterinary Psychiatry of Cats, 2023, pp 133-138

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by describing the needs of cats in order to promote companion animal welfare.
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The Veterinarian's Guide to Animal Welfare, 2022, pp 117-138

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by describing the various methods and metrics to use in assessing animal welfare, from wildlife to livestock to laboratory animals and beyond.
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The Perfect Puppy, 2022, pp 309-313

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by describing effective and compassionate end of life care for dogs to promote companion animal welfare.
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Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals, Third Edition, 2023, pp 3-16

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by discussing the ethical considerations of using laboratory animals as test subjects.
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Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals, Third Edition, 2023, pp 711-723

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by considering best practices for using anesthesia on laboratory animals to promote laboratory animal welfare.
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New Aspects of Meat Quality: From Genes to Ethics, Second Edition, 2022, pp 667-703

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by discussing the role of transparency regarding livestock animal welfare in consumer attitudes toward livestock production practices.
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Advances in Pig Welfare, 2018, pp 381-398

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by discussing the role of human-animal relationships in maintaining livestock welfare.
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Laboratory Fish in Biomedical Research, 2021, pp 101-117

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 14: Life under Water by discussing the ethical considerations and welfare needs of zebrafish in laboratory settings.
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Spontaneous Pathology of the Laboratory Non-Human Primate, 2023, pp 7-13

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by discussing the ethical considerations of caring for non-human primates as laboratory subjects.
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Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, 2022, pp 113-120

This chapter aligns with Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Goal 15: Life on Land by giving a review of the jaguar species, including their ecology, behavior, threats, and conservation status, highlighting recent initiatives to conserve jaguars.
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Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 10, 2022, pp 245-250

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by discussing the importance and assessment of zoo animal welfare.
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Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 10, 2022, pp 255-260

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by comparing animal welfare across zoos and natural habitats.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Volume 284, October 2023

This article advances SDG # 14 by investigating the impact aerobic swimming exercise in fish has on improving robustness of some species and the importance of establishing suitable rearing conditions to improve the welfare of cultured fish.
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Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 38, September 2023

Conservation scientists often aim to modify animal behaviour for management. However, there are ethical/welfare issues associated with this. The authors provide a decision support tool to assess the ethical considerations of modifiy animal behaviour against alternative options
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 121, August 2023

This article advances SDG # 15 and SDG # 11 by examining the large number of animals killed on road and establish how best to assess the problem so as to improve mitigation.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Volume 274, December 2022

This article advances SDG # 15 and SDG # 14 by highlighting the value of the use of haematology in identifying changing patterns of health among seabirds which may serve as an early indicator of breeding failure, overwintering mortality, and population declines.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Volume 272, October 2022

This article advances SDG # 14 by looking at the impact that environmental changes and anthropogenic threats are having on marine mammals through the assessment of different stress biomarkers in certain body tissues of chronically affected and bycaught striped dolphins.
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 15, September 2022

Increasing road traffic in China means roadkill is a large and growing problem there. This paper analyses patterns in order to support mitigation measures.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Volume 267, May 2022

This article advances SDG # 15 and SDG # 11 by looking at the impact captivity has on wild animals and help identify which species may be able to successfully transition to a captive environment.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 257, January 2022

This article advances SDG # 15 and # 11 by investigating one of the factors leading to the global decline of bee populations. Pathogens, which need overcome the insect defenses such as the physical barriers, the body cuticle and peritrophic matrix (primary defenses), as well as the secondary defenses with antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and the enzyme lysozyme were evaluated according to cuticle maturation.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 242, April 2021

This article advances SDG #14 by looking at the impact widely used antibiotics are having on aquatic organisms when they are excreted unchanged into enter our water bodies.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 235, September 2020

This article advances SDG # 15 and # 14 by looking at the potential adverse effects relatively high total mercury concentration has on the developing fetus of Steller sea lions.
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Tourism Management, Volume 100, February 2024

This study investigates the factors that influence travelers' intentions toward animal ethics in tourism and makes a significant contribution to methodological approaches and the body of knowledge in animal ethics in tourism.
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Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 96, September 2022

Research indicates that tourists continue to have difficulty assessing animals' welfare at wildlife tourism attractions, and so there is an immediate need for more education on such impacts. The purpose of this paper is to fill this education knowledge gap by introducing an environmental literacy framework, i.e., “what an environmentally literate person should know and be able to do,” in progressing from animal welfare illiteracy in tourism to literacy.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics, Volume 40, December 2021

Farmed fish are commonly exposed to stress in intensive aquaculture systems, often leading to immune impairment and increased susceptibility to disease. Effects of two aquaculture-relevant early-life stressors on the gut and skin microbiome of Atlantic salmon fry (four months post hatching) using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing were studied.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 239, January 2021

Trichlorfon is an organophosphate pesticide used extensively for controlling ectoparasites in aquaculture. Studies have found that trichlorfon caused environmental pollution and severe neurotoxic effects in several freshwater species. Feed additives such as flavonoids may reduce or prevent pesticide-induced toxicity in fish. The aim of the present study was to determine whether acute exposure to trichlorfon impairs behaviour and causes oxidative damage in brains of silver catfish (Rhamdia quelen).
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Theriogenology Wild, Volume 2, 2023, 100027

The breeding of captive wild species can play a crucial role in their preservation. One major barrier to successful captive breeding is the difficulty of replicating the natural environment. In this study the authors provide suggestions and recommendations to facilitate future breeding efforts for captive jaguars.
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Theriogenology Wild, Volume 1, 2022, 100011

It is important to learn how to manage Asian male elephant reproductive behaviour for the long-term sustainability of the species. The authors provide important information that can be directly applied to improving the well-being of elephants and other wildlife.
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Theriogenology Wild, Volume 2, 2023, 100024

The rescue of wild animals after major environmental disasters is complex and requires an an integrative approach. Conservation scientists describe a successful example that lead to the reproduction of the only pair of Jaguars under reproductive age saved from the devastating Pantanal wildfires that killed over 16.9 million vertebrates in 2018..
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Animal Behaviour, Volume 186, April 2022, Pages 151-177

The authors investigate whether applying multiple welfare indicators’ and triangulating them can lead to converged and corroborating evidence of welfare, or whether the indicators' contradict one another.
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SLAS Discovery, Volume 25, Issue 10, December 2020, Pages 1174-1190

Animal models are used with increasing numbers in the late LO phase and particularly in the candidate selection phase for pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) and efficacy, and then also used in regulatory required safety studies. Therefore, there are opportunities throughout the drug discovery process to incorporate more translationally predictive cellular models, or CIVMs, to both reduce animal use aligned to our 3Rs commitment (replacement, reduction, and refinement) and provide data that better translate to the clinic, which ultimately results in better medicines for patients.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics, Volume 42, June 2022, 100991

The diseased state in dolphins had metabolic consequences with a shift towards protein degradation. This may constrain the way cetaceans could cope with extra stressors (e.g., human disturbances). Provides insight to how we deal with conservation policies and the impact of stressors on population dynamics.