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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...