Growing interest in commercial octopus farming threatens to subject these cognitively complex, sentient animals to inhumane ...

The AWI Quarterly is the magazine of the Animal Welfare Institute. This full-color periodical examines issues regarding animals everywhere—in the laboratory, on the farm, in commercial trade, at home, ...

The American beaver (Castor canadensis) is a keystone species whose ponds and wetlands help replenish groundwater, serve as buffers against wildfires, and provide habitat for a wide variety of ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds recent announcements by the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration about their plans to reduce the use of animals in research ...

.option { font-size:16px !important; } Tens of millions of animals are used annually for research, testing, and education throughout the United States. Facilities that breed, hold, or use animals for ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and an international coalition of animal protection and environmental groups are calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the LY Corporation, to stop selling ...

We also developed an effective reward-based conditioning program to promote restraint tolerance and voluntary entry into the restraint apparatus. We had previous success conditioning swine for ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, reintroduced today in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). This bill would prohibit the use of ...

Single-housed baboons provided with a large enriched activity cage [during two days each month] display dramatic changes in behavior typically considered to represent positive psychological well-being ...

The relationship between people and companion animals, on the one hand, explains the bites and zoonotic diseases that occur among those with companion animals and, on the other hand, appears to ...

Reducing stress on livestock during handling will help reduce sickness and enable cattle to go back on feed more quickly. Many detrimental effects of handling stressors on animal performance and ...