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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

A few chimps will use sticks or. Barnett, C. 1997. A gravity roulette feeder for chimpanzees. The Shape of Enrichment 6(2), 11.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...