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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
29
Citations
4660
World Ranking
2534
National Ranking
202

Best Publications

  • An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood

    Michael Mendl;Oliver H. P. Burman;Elizabeth S. Paul

  • Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms

    Michael Mendl;Oliver H.P. Burman;Richard M.A. Parker;Elizabeth S. Paul

  • Dogs showing separation-related behaviour exhibit a ‘pessimistic’ cognitive bias

    Michael Mendl;Julie Brooks;Christine Basse;Oliver Burman;Oliver Burman

  • A guide to defining and implementing protocols for the welfare assessment of laboratory animals: eleventh report of the BVAAWF/FRAME/RSPCA/UFAW Joint Working Group on Refinement.

    P. Hawkins;D. Morton;Oliver Burman;N. Dennison

  • A spatial judgement task to determine background emotional state in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus)

    Oliver H.P. Burman;Richard Parker;Elizabeth S. Paul;Michael Mendl

  • Using judgement bias to measure positive affective state in dogs

    Oliver Burman;Oliver Burman;Ragen McGowan;Michael Mendl;Yezica Norling

  • Anxiety-induced cognitive bias in non-human animals.

    Oliver H.P. Burman;Richard M.A. Parker;Elizabeth S. Paul;Michael T. Mendl

  • Sensitivity to reward loss as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare

    Oliver H.P Burman;Richard M.A Parker;Elizabeth S Paul;Michael Mendl

  • Dogs with separation-related problems show a “less pessimistic” cognitive bias during treatment with fluoxetine (Reconcile™) and a behaviour modification plan

    Christos I. Karagiannis;Oliver H. P. Burman;Daniel S. Mills

  • The effects of enhancing cage complexity on the behaviour and welfare of laboratory rats

    Usama A. Abou-Ismail;Oliver H.P. Burman;Christine J. Nicol;Michael Mendl

  • Ultrasonic vocalizations as indicators of welfare for laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus)

    Oliver H.P. Burman;Alexander Ilyat;Gareth Jones;Michael Mendl

  • Unpredictable movement as an anti-predator strategy.

    Graham Richardson;Patrick Dickinson;Oliver H. P. Burman;Thomas W. Pike

  • Can Sleep and Resting Behaviours Be Used as Indicators of Welfare in Shelter Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)

    Sara C. Owczarczak-Garstecka;Oliver H. P. Burman

  • Animal memory and animal welfare

    Michael Mendl;Oliver Burman;Kirsty Laughlin;Elizabeth Paul

  • Developing Diagnostic Frameworks in Veterinary Behavioral Medicine: Disambiguating Separation Related Problems in Dogs

    Luciana S. de Assis;Raquel Matos;Thomas W. Pike;Oliver H. P. Burman

  • The impact of egg incubation temperature on the personality of oviparous reptiles

    Harry Siviter;D. Charles Deeming;Joanna Rosenberger;Oliver H. P. Burman

  • Horses (Equus caballus) discriminate body odour cues from conspecifics

    Franck Péron;Rebecca Ward;Oliver Burman

  • Does the provision of environmental enrichment affect the behaviour and welfare of captive snakes

    Tatjana Hoehfurtner;Anna Wilkinson;Gokulan Nagabaskaran;Oliver H.P. Burman

  • Removing individual rats affects indicators of welfare in the remaining group members.

    Oliver Burman;Diane Owen;Usama Abou-Ismail;Usama Abou-Ismail;Michael Mendl

  • Hens vary their vocal repertoire and structure when anticipating different types of reward

    Nicky McGrath;Rebecca Dunlop;Cathy Dwyer;Oliver Burman

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