Honey bees use a complex form of spatial referential communication. Their "waggle dance" communicates the direction, distance, and quality of a resource to nestmates by encoding celestial cues, retinal optic flow, and relative food value into motion and sound within the nest. We show that correct...

Providing environmental enrichments that increase environmental complexity can benefit poultry welfare. This Poultry Science Association symposium paper is structured around four themes on (1) poultry preferences and affective states (2) species-specific behavior, including play behavior and the...

Social animals are particularly exposed to infectious diseases. Pathogen-driven selection pressures have thus favoured the evolution of behavioural adaptations to decrease transmission risk such as the avoidance of contagious individuals. Yet, such strategies deprive individuals of valuable social...

The presence of a conspecific can be calming to some species of animal during stress, a phenomenon known as social buffering. For rodents, social buffering can reduce the perception of and reaction to aversive experiences. With a companion, animals may be less frightened in conditioned fear...

The juvenile hormone (JH) plays a key role in the development of honeybee larvae and the alteration of adult behavior. Verification methods of types and stereoisomers of JHs in honeybees were established in this study. The regulatory modes of different stereoisomers of JH III on the social...

Biting is a natural response for horses and is part of their maintenance behaviour repertoire for warding off herd members for various reasons. These could include reproductive states, guarding resources or merely signalling another horse to move away. Horses will always give warning signals before ...

This case study describes how to reintroduce a kitten to a resident senior cat after the initial introduction did not go well. The resident cat did not accept the kitten and was spending more time outside. When she came into contact with the kitten, she would hiss and growl. A slow reintroduction...

Donkeys have significant behaviour variations in comparison with horses, due to each species evolving in different environments. Donkeys have a reduced flight response compared with horses, but an increased tendency to display fight or freeze behaviours. Unlike horses, they can display territorial, ...