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August 12, 2026 Each year, our internal Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee conducts an anonymous survey of our staff’s diversity and feelings about what it’s like to…

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From raccoons solving puzzle boxes to dogs leaving saliva samples, scientists are experimenting with less invasive ways to study wildlife.

About Fat Marmot Week The largest of the true hibernators, marmots bulk up all summer to survive the winter. Fat Marmot Week is an opportunity to get folks excited about yellow-bellied marmots, one of...

August 12, 2026 Each year, our internal Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee conducts an anonymous survey of our staff’s diversity and feelings about what it’s like to…

May 31, 2025 Every animal welfare scientist has probably thought at some point in their career, “My job would be a lot easier if the animals could just tell me how they’re feeling.” The new — and…

Veterinarians have a lot to offer the field of wild animal welfare science, but research training and opportunities are essential.

Faced with anthropogenic change, animals now encounter challenges different from their evolutionary past. To cope with such challenges, animals may use social information about others' affective stat...

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Veterinarians have a lot to offer the field of wild animal welfare science, but research training and opportunities are essential.

Wild animal welfare scientists use a variety of metrics and indicators to find out about the subjective experiences of individual wild animals. These are some examples.

Intervening in ecosystems can have unintended effects. Ensuring that interventions intended to improve the welfare of wild animals have positive outcomes will require careful monitoring.

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The study introduces AWICIS, a framework that measures how invasive birds and ants cause physical and mental suffering in individual animals, highlighting severe impacts from invasive ants.

This year, Wild Animal Initiative awarded $727,658 in grants to support high-priority research in wild animal welfare science.

Avian vampire flies (Philornis downsi) were not discovered in the Galápagos Islands for almost three decades after they were thought to have arrived from mainland Ecuador in the 1960s. Even then, the…

This year, Wild Animal Initiative awarded $727,658 in grants to support high-priority research in wild animal welfare science.

Veterinarians could enrich wildlife-oriented research through their unique perspective informed by health and welfare. However, embarking on this path…

Injuries and deformities likely affect welfare in wild fish, but we know surprisingly little about how prevalent they are. A new paper by Wild Animal Initiative's staff takes a first look.

Biological invasions can severely harm the welfare of animals, causing them to suffer. AWICIS is a new framework that can be used to assess the severity of these impacts.

The animal welfare impacts of biological invasions is a neglected research topic. Here the authors developed a framework to assess their severity and type, and apply it to bird and ant invasions, find...

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Para hacerte socio, pincha aquí ¡¡NUEVO!! Próximamente las Cuartas Jornadas de la RedCIBA. Pincha aquí para más información Trabajamos por el bienestar animal con una visión científica y objetiva Red…

With funding from Wild Animal Initiative, researchers are developing a test that can be used to measure cognitive judgment bias in free-ranging bumblebees. They will conduct the first study of the…

Welfare implications of injuries and deformities in wild fish - Volume 35

Wild animal welfare scientists use a variety of metrics and indicators to find out about the subjective experiences of individual wild animals. These are some examples.

Para hacerte socio, pincha aquí ¡¡NUEVO!! Próximamente las Cuartas Jornadas de la RedCIBA. Pincha aquí para más información Trabajamos por el bienestar animal con una visión científica y objetiva Red…

With funding from Wild Animal Initiative, researchers are developing a test that can be used to measure cognitive judgment bias in free-ranging bumblebees. They will conduct the first study of the…