About this Research Topic
This Research Topic aims to collect contributions exploring links between behavior, physiology and welfare of animals traditionally used for food producing purposes (e.g., rabbits, ruminants, swine) and/or animals used for research purposes, investigating how behavior could be used for (early) disease diagnose or assessment of the overall health status of those animals.
This Research Topic invites contributions presenting research, reviews, case reports and opinions related to:
• Concepts or frameworks investigating normal behavior of food-producing animals (rabbits, ruminants, swine, etc.), or animals used for research purposes; behavioral deviations for those species indicating poor welfare conditions or disease.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate methodologies integrating behavioral assessment of animals used to research and/or food-production in higher education establishments, including novel approaches in education with the use of digital technologies (e.g., digitalized educational tools).
• Transdisciplinary basic and applied research on animals used as human behavioral models or cross-species behavioral models, in a broad spectrum of disciplines (e.g., neuroscience, mental health, cancer research, and/or -omics)
• Use of behavioral assessment for a better implementation of 3Rs principle in animals used for research purposes.
We invite academics, students, practitioners, and researchers in multiple areas, e.g., biologists, veterinarians and other basic researchers, working on behavioral aspects of those species to share their work on this Research Topic.
This Research Topic invites contributions presenting research, reviews, case reports and opinions related to:
• Concepts or frameworks investigating normal behavior of food-producing animals (rabbits, ruminants, swine, etc.), or animals used for research purposes; behavioral deviations for those species indicating poor welfare conditions or disease.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate methodologies integrating behavioral assessment of animals used to research and/or food-production in higher education establishments, including novel approaches in education with the use of digital technologies (e.g., digitalized educational tools).
• Transdisciplinary basic and applied research on animals used as human behavioral models or cross-species behavioral models, in a broad spectrum of disciplines (e.g., neuroscience, mental health, cancer research, and/or -omics)
• Use of behavioral assessment for a better implementation of 3Rs principle in animals used for research purposes.
We invite academics, students, practitioners, and researchers in multiple areas, e.g., biologists, veterinarians and other basic researchers, working on behavioral aspects of those species to share their work on this Research Topic.
Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural assessment, normal behaviour, digitalised educational tools, transdisciplinary studies, disease, food-production, research animals, behavioural models
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