The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, reintroduced today in the US House of ...

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

Tens of millions of animals are used annually for research, testing, and education throughout the United States. Facilities ...

To help promote the use of such ethical, ecologically responsible, and affordable solutions, AWI has long supported the efforts of the Beaver Institute, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization ...

The ability of sheep,Ovis aries, to discriminate between sheep, humans and other animals on the basis of facial and vocal cues was tested in an enclosed Y-maze. Pairs of faces or voices were presented ...

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 ...

There are few systematic investigations of the potential benefits of incidental touch as it occurs in medical health care settings. In the present laboratory study 60 college students participated in ...

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 ...

A few chimps will use sticks or branches to knock the enrichment items down the hole in the platform and then climb down and get the treats at the openings. Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesn't, ...

In an [successful] effort to reduce abnormal behaviors, especially regurgitation and reingestion, and promote higher activity levels [locomoting and playing], straw and scattered forage material were ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds recent announcements by the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and ...