Dairy vs beef production – expert views on welfare of cattle in common food production systems
Consumers’ views and concerns about the welfare of farm animals may play an important role in their decision to consume dairy, meat and...
16
Sep
Posts by Romain Lefèvre
11
Jun
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primate research and conservation
There is evidence to suggest that the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may hamper our achievement of the Sustainable Develo...
07
Jun
Cross-species discrimination of vocal expression of emotional valence by Equidae and Suidae
Background Discrimination and perception of emotion expression regulate interactions between conspecifics and can lead to emotional con...
28
Mar
Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations
Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they...
09
Mar
Classification of pig calls produced from birth to slaughter according to their emotional valence and context of production
Vocal expression of emotions has been observed across species and could provide a non-invasive and reliable means to assess animal emot...
15
Feb
Monetary value of live trade in a commonly traded primate, the long-tailed macaque, based on global trade statistics
Non-human primates (primates) are regarded as key research subjects for pre-clinical trials of several drugs aimed to alleviate human s...
03
Jan
Evaluating the need to habituate: modern approaches to field primatology during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Although historically habituation has largely been the default method in field primatology, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to re-e...
08
Dec
Novel ideas to further expand the applicability of rhythm analysis
The temporal structure of animals’ acoustic signals can inform about context, urgency, species, individual identity, or geographical or...
09
Nov
Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements
Baleen whales influence their ecosystems through immense prey consumption and nutrient recycling1,2,3. It is difficult to accurately ga...
25
Sep
A relationship between the characteristics of the oval nucleus of the mesopallium and parrot vocal response to playback
Correlations between differences in animal behavior and brain structures have been used to infer function of those structures. Brain re...