From: IN%"keckert@larc.ucsf.edu" "Eckert, Katie" 15-NOV-2000 18:59:31.85 To: IN%"Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" "'Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca'" CC: Subj: Rabbit housing Hello, I am interested in hearing from anyone working in a laboratory or similar type of facility that is doing social housing of rabbits. We have approximately 15 rabbits at one of our facilities that we would like to socially house in a large room, and we would appreciate any recommendations regarding the monitoring of feed, cleaning, etc. Many thanks, Katie Eckert ************************************************* Katherine Eckert Environmental Enrichment Technician UCSF Laboratory Animal Resource Center 513 Parnassus Ave Box 0564 San Francisco, CA 94143-0564 Email: KEckert@larc.ucsf.edu Fax: (415) 502-6107 From: IN%"Paul.Koene@Etho.VH.WAU.NL" 16-NOV-2000 01:58:02.95 To: IN%"applied-ethology-error@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: chinese bear farming Dear ISAE-members, A short time ago a message about bear farming was sent to this list to activate reseachers in animal behaviour and welfare to respond to information given about chinese bear farming. Because I am working partly in the field of bear behaviour and welfare (mainly dancing bears) I was asked by the ISAE to coordinate a response to Barbara Maas about aspects of this farming. With this mail I would like to ask you to respond to this issue and to do a number of things: 1. Please, visit http://www.zod.wau.nl/etho/ibf/bearfarm.html to read the original mail of Barbara Maas (1) barbara.maas@btinternet.com , the position of the Bear TAG (2) and a document Barbara Maas makes (3) a.o. to show that CITES has also to do with welfare problems and last but not least to see part of a video (4) that shows the housing conditions and behaviour of some farmed bears. 2. Please, send your written response about the Bear farming and especially about health, behaviour and welfare or other points on which your are an expert to Barbara Maas ( barbara.maas@btinternet.com ). Even better write her an official letter or fax: Barbara Maas Ph.D. Wildlife Consultant 11 Sheldon Road London N18 1RQ UK 3. Please, send also your e-mail response about the Bear farming and especially about behaviour and welfare to me Paul Koene ( paul.koene@etho.vh.wau.nl ), so that I can generate apart from individual responses also one coordinated response of ISAE-members and send it to Barbara Maas. 4. Because Barbara has to deal with a deadline of 20 November 2000, I urge you to respond before 19 November to her and to me, leaving us some time to compile the reactions. Remember the goal is to collect professional reactions concerning health and welfare of farmed bears and to increase awareness in CITES about animal welfare. Please be as specific as possible about any concerns you wish to raise. Use your knowledge about housing and farm animal behaviour in particular. I send you below my first personal impression and response as an ethologist, ISAE member and founder of the International Bear Foundation, the Netherlands. For the last 7 years I am confronted with many human-bear conflicts in which bears are always victim (dancing bears, circus bears, war bears, bear biting, and even surplus bears from zoos). The bears show in their behavioural reactions (most bears are in small confinement) many stereotypic behaviours and/or other behavioural abnormalities as for instance masturbation, self-mutilation. If conditions for the bears become better bears appear to recover often and show play behaviour and appear to be long living (Koene, P. Adaptation of blind brown bears to a new environment and its residents: stereotypy and play as welfare indicators. Ursus 10: 579-587). Bears thus are flexible and show a large adaptation potential. However, reports of housing conditions and the longevity of farmed bears show stereotypic behaviours that are indicative of high stress. Housing conditions are such that they are beyond the adaptation potential of the farmed bears. In the material I have seen, almost all animals perform such behaviours. In terms of cagesize it is obvious that animals have no space for their normal behavioural repertoire. The minimal demands as stated already in the Brambell report or the five freedoms (FAWC) cannot be attained. The longevity of the animals shows - according to the approach of Kirkwood to welfare (relating longevity and duration and intensity of harm to welfare) - that there is a huge welfare problem with bears in Chinese bear farming (living with pain and stereotypies and short lived). In my professional opinion the bear farming must stop. Please respond to Barbara, barbara.maas@btinternet.com Barbara Maas Ph.D. Wildlife Consultant 11 Sheldon Road London N18 1RQ UK and me, paul.koene@etho.vh.wau.nl . Thanks very much, Paul Koene, PhD Ass. Professor Ethology Animal Husbandry Group Department of Animal Sciences Wageningen University P.O. Box 338 / 6700 AH Wageningen Building 531 / Marijkeweg 40/ 6709 PG Wageningen The Netherlands Telephone +31 (0)317 482896 / 483120 Telefax +31 (0)317 485006 Mobile +31 (0)6 22572162 E-mail: Paul.Koene@etho.vh.wau.nl E-mail: Paul.Koene@etho.vh.wag-ur.nl Internet: www.zod.wageningen-ur.nl/etho From: IN%"Paul.Koene@Etho.VH.WAU.NL" 16-NOV-2000 02:06:39.24 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: chinese bear farming Dear ISAE-members, A short time ago a message about bear farming was sent to this list to activate reseachers in animal behaviour and welfare to respond to information given about chinese bear farming. Because I am working partly in the field of bear behaviour and welfare (mainly dancing bears) I was asked by the ISAE to coordinate a response to Barbara Maas about aspects of this farming. With this mail I would like to ask you to respond to this issue and to do a number of things: 1. Please, visit http://www.zod.wau.nl/etho/ibf/bearfarm.html to read the original mail of Barbara Maas (1) barbara.maas@btinternet.com , the position of the Bear TAG (2) and a document Barbara Maas makes (3) a.o. to show that CITES has also to do with welfare problems and last but not least to see part of a video (4) that shows the housing conditions and behaviour of some farmed bears. 2. Please, send your written response about the Bear farming and especially about health, behaviour and welfare or other points on which your are an expert to Barbara Maas ( barbara.maas@btinternet.com ). Even better write her an official letter or fax: Barbara Maas Ph.D. Wildlife Consultant 11 Sheldon Road London N18 1RQ UK 3. Please, send also your e-mail response about the Bear farming and especially about behaviour and welfare to me Paul Koene ( paul.koene@etho.vh.wau.nl ), so that I can generate apart from individual responses also one coordinated response of ISAE-members and send it to Barbara Maas. 4. Because Barbara has to deal with a deadline of 20 November 2000, I urge you to respond before 19 November to her and to me, leaving us some time to compile the reactions. Remember the goal is to collect professional reactions concerning health and welfare of farmed bears and to increase awareness in CITES about animal welfare. Please be as specific as possible about any concerns you wish to raise. Use your knowledge about housing and farm animal behaviour in particular. I send you below my first personal impression and response as an ethologist, ISAE member and founder of the International Bear Foundation, the Netherlands. For the last 7 years I am confronted with many human-bear conflicts in which bears are always victim (dancing bears, circus bears, war bears, bear biting, and even surplus bears from zoos). The bears show in their behavioural reactions (most bears are in small confinement) many stereotypic behaviours and/or other behavioural abnormalities as for instance masturbation, self-mutilation. If conditions for the bears become better bears appear to recover often and show play behaviour and appear to be long living (Koene, P. Adaptation of blind brown bears to a new environment and its residents: stereotypy and play as welfare indicators. Ursus 10: 579-587). Bears thus are flexible and show a large adaptation potential. However, reports of housing conditions and the longevity of farmed bears show stereotypic behaviours that are indicative of high stress. Housing conditions are such that they are beyond the adaptation potential of the farmed bears. In the material I have seen, almost all animals perform such behaviours. In terms of cagesize it is obvious that animals have no space for their normal behavioural repertoire. The minimal demands as stated already in the Brambell report or the five freedoms (FAWC) cannot be attained. The longevity of the animals shows - according to the approach of Kirkwood to welfare (relating longevity and duration and intensity of harm to welfare) - that there is a huge welfare problem with bears in Chinese bear farming (living with pain and stereotypies and short lived). In my professional opinion the bear farming must stop. Please respond to Barbara, barbara.maas@btinternet.com Barbara Maas Ph.D. Wildlife Consultant 11 Sheldon Road London N18 1RQ UK and me, paul.koene@etho.vh.wau.nl . Thanks very much, Paul Koene, PhD Ass. Professor Ethology Animal Husbandry Group Department of Animal Sciences Wageningen University P.O. Box 338 / 6700 AH Wageningen Building 531 / Marijkeweg 40/ 6709 PG Wageningen The Netherlands Telephone +31 (0)317 482896 / 483120 Telefax +31 (0)317 485006 Mobile +31 (0)6 22572162 E-mail: Paul.Koene@etho.vh.wau.nl E-mail: Paul.Koene@etho.vh.wag-ur.nl From: IN%"Andreas.Briese@tiho-hannover.de" 17-NOV-2000 02:57:43.81 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: News about MCDonald's refusing GM-animal food in european countr McDONALD;S URGED TO EXTEND GM-FREE PLEDGE By Neville Judd HAMBURG, Germany, November 16, 2000 (ENS) - The world's largest and most well known fast food chain McDonald's has announced it will stop using genetically modified (GM) animal food in seven European countries by next April. Greenpeace Canada wants to know, if GM free ingredients are good enough for Europe, why not Canada or anywhere else? For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/nov2000/2000L-11-16-11.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Institut fuer Tierhygiene und Tierschutz Tieraerztliche Hochschule Hannover Institute of Animal Hygiene and Welfare School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Dr. med. vet. Andreas Briese Buenteweg 17p 30559 Hannover Tel.: (0511) 953-8837 (0511) 120 2102 Fax.: (0511) 953-8588 (0511) 120 99 2102 e-mail: Andreas.Briese@tiho-hannover.de alternativ (grosse Attachments): Andreas_Briese@animcare-sci.de ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: IN%"barbara.maas@btinternet.com" "Barbara Maas" 21-NOV-2000 14:40:37.42 To: IN%"Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" "Applied Ethology" CC: Subj: BEARS Dear Colleagues, Perhaps you have had a chance to review the information posted recently about bear farming for bile extraction in Asia both by myself and Paul Koene. The deadline my report has arrived, and because I have received so much support (e.g., IUCN Veterinary Specialist Group, AZA Bear Taxon Advisory Group and EAZA Bear TAG Chairs) I decided not to append the letters themselves to my report, but to add the names of those who oppose bear farming for bile on both veterinary and welfare grounds. The consensus to have emerged is that the husbandry requirements of wild bears with permanent gall bladder fistulas on the one hand, and modern bear husbandry (e.g., AZA and EAZA) on the other can not be consolidated. I am sorry, but it's all a bit last minute now. If you would like me to add your name to the list of those opposing bear farming for bile extraction on veterinary, behavioural and welfare grounds, please send me a quick e-mail with your name, title and affiliation by Thursday morning. Thank you to Paul Koene for having gone through all the trouble of creating a bear farming website and for trying to rustle up support. I shall be presenting my report to the CITES Animals Committee in early December. Every name will count! Please get in touch. Best wishes, Barbara Maas Barbara Maas Ph.D Wildlife Consultant 11 Sheldon Road Edmonton London N18 1RQ UK T/F: +44-20-82454126 E-mail: barbara.maas@btinternet.com From: IN%"Andreas.Briese@tiho-hannover.de" 22-NOV-2000 03:30:25.75 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: animal husbandry in zoos ENS-News covers Zoo scandal in India. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/nov2000/2000L-11-21-11.html > India's Top Court Intervenes in Zoo Scandal NEW DEHLI, India, November 21, 2000 (ENS) - Conditions in India's zoos have become so pitiful, the country's Supreme Court has taken action. On Monday, a judge ordered no new zoos can be built without the approval of the Supreme Court. Also not beeing a zoo animal specialist, I would like to comment, that on a journey in Florida in Febr. 1999 i have been shocked by american zoos. I have taken video tapes of stereotype behaviour of polar bear and walrus in SEAWORLD, Orlando, and seen "minimum enclosures" for spider monkey and black panther in an adventure park near Ft. Meyers. Not to speak about the PET-Stores in Florida. PETA would do well to put their fingers onto their own nose time by time. Look also at http://www.wspa.org.uk/news/pres-rel/zoos01.html Till 1999 nothing seemed to have changed to this report. Andreas ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Institut fuer Tierhygiene und Tierschutz Tieraerztliche Hochschule Hannover Institute of Animal Hygiene and Welfare School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Dr. med. vet. Andreas Briese Buenteweg 17p 30559 Hannover Tel.: (0511) 953-8837 (0511) 120 2102 Fax.: (0511) 953-8588 (0511) 120 99 2102 e-mail: Andreas.Briese@tiho-hannover.de alternativ (grosse Attachments): Andreas_Briese@animcare-sci.de ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: IN%"Marine.Bedoucha@wanadoo.fr" "Marine Cassoret-Bedoucha" 22-NOV-2000 10:28:53.17 To: IN%"Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: introductory note This is my first message to the applied ethology group. I'm a PhD student currently writing up a thesis on "pain, fear and learning in fish". Details of my work and r=E9sum=E9 can be found at: http://www.marinefishpage.fr.st Marine Cassoret-Bedoucha ----- Marine.Bedoucha@wanadoo.fr Marine.Cassoret@bristol.ac.uk From: IN%"hanno.wuerbel@inw.agrl.ethz.ch" "Hanno Wuerbel" 26-NOV-2000 06:56:22.77 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca", IN%"ISAEnet-l@usask.ca", IN%"bang_net@email.rutgers.edu", IN%"owner-mmb-network@rrz.uni-koeln.de", IN%"animal-welfare@mailbase.ac.uk" CC: Subj: PhD position in Zurich (1) PhD position (3 years) at ETH Zurich: "Effects of environmental modulation of maternal care on the expression of stress responses and fearfulness in rats and mice." (ETH Research Project) Institute of Animal Sciences, Chair Physiology and Animal Husbandry Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) Project leader and supervisor: Dr. Hanno Wuerbel The position should become available as from January 2001, starting date negotiable. Salary according to the guidelines of the Swiss National Science Foundation (approx. Euro 20'000 per year). The successful applicant will learn to use state-of-the-art behavioural and endocrinological techniques to study in laboratory rats and mice effects of the rearing environment on maternal behaviour and how environment-dependent variation in maternal care affects the expression of behavioural and endocrine stress responses and fearfulness in the offspring. He or she will join a young team working in the field of laboratory animal husbandry and welfare. Current projects include behavioural studies on effects of social and non-social aspects of the housing conditions on cognition in rats and mice and on the external validity of animal experiments. We are affiliated with other groups involved in research on animal husbandry and welfare as well as groups using rodents in neuroscience research. The research project will be complemented by selected courses in a variety of related disciplines throughout the 3 year period. Candidates with a strong background in ethology and/or stress physiology and with knowledge of basic behavioural and endocrinological techniques will be favourably considered. A reasonable command of English is essential. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and other significant material and an address of reference should be sent by either mail or eMail to: _______________________________ Dr. Hanno Wuerbel Institute of Animal Sciences Physiology and Husbandry ETH Zurich Schorenstrasse 16/SLA B14 8603 Schwerzenbach phone: ++41.1.655.74.79 fax: ++41.1.655.72.01 hanno.wuerbel@inw.agrl.ethz.ch From: IN%"hanno.wuerbel@inw.agrl.ethz.ch" "Hanno Wuerbel" 26-NOV-2000 07:28:23.98 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca", IN%"ISAEnet-l@usask.ca", IN%"bang_net@email.rutgers.edu", IN%"owner-mmb-network@rrz.uni-koeln.de", IN%"animal-welfare@mailbase.ac.uk" CC: Subj: PhD position in Zurich (2) PhD position (3 years) at University of Zurich: "Detection and characterization of signs of pain in mice by a combined use of a telemetry model and behavioural observations." (3R Research Project) Institute of Laboratory Animal Science (Prof. K. Burki) Central Biology Laboratory, University Hospital University of Zurich Project leader and supervisor: Dr. Margarete Arras The position is immediately available, starting date negotiable. Salary according to the guidelines of the Swiss National Science Foundation (approx. Euro 20'000 per year).=20 The successful applicant will learn to use state-of-the-art behavioural and physiological techniques to identify in laboratory mice indicators of pain that are suitable to be applied under routine laboratory conditions.=20 Candidates with a strong background in ethology and/or physiology and with knowledge of basic behavioural and endocrinological techniques will be favourably considered. A reasonable command of English is essential. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and other significant material and an address of reference should be sent by either mail or eMail to: Institut f=FCr Labortierkunde Biologisches Zentrallabor Universitatsspital Zurich Dr. M. Arras=20 Sternwartstrasse 6=20 8091 Zurich=20 Tel.: ++41 (0)1 255 36 38=20 bzl@bzl.unizh.ch see also: http://www.ltk.unizh.ch/ and http://www.bzl.unizh.ch/index.htm From: IN%"LittinK@landcare.cri.nz" 26-NOV-2000 13:05:44.05 CC: Subj: Applied-ethology commands -Reply Hi, i'm at a conference until Friday 1 December. If you need to reach me urgently, my email is katelittin@yahoo.com (but no attachments please). Kind regards, Kate Littin. From: IN%"madchen@adelphia.net" "madchen" 28-NOV-2000 17:54:45.83 To: IN%"Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" "Applied Ethology" CC: Subj: German Shepherd Rescue Hello Listers. I have been lurking on this list for sometime, and I now have something = to post. Hopefully, it will not be breaking any rules. The name of this list is = APPLIED Ethology, and this is an excellent opportunity to act. If you cannot, = please forward this message to someone who can. The following message is from a woman who operates a German Shepherd = rescue group in the United States. She has become aware of a German Shepherd = in Taiwan who is in desperate need. She is willing to donate funds and = offer assistance, but needs to find someone local to the dog who is willing to = help. Her message follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------ OK, Rescue folks - can any group out there help out non-local GSDs? Here is a dog, from Taiwan, who could use a *lot* of help, quickly. I don't know about his temperament now, or what he'll be like once=20 he's healthy. I don't know anything about him except what is here in=20 a picture. But I'm sitting here, feeling truly awful for this creature. My group = can't=20 help him, as we're chock-full of dogs here and will be for awhile, and = our also charter states that we take in only New England GSDs.=20 Go to this link and look in the lower right corner for the GSD. What do you think?: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=3D994689&a=3D9853941 Anybody know of another rescue group that could take a chance on this boy if his temperment seems OK? If so, I'd be glad to donate some funds to help out w/his shipping/care.=20 -Janice Ritter -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------------------------------ Chris & Cathy Daugaard madchen@adelphia.net Kaos von Arbeiten M=E4dchen, SchI, PT, CDX, TDI H=E4lle von Arbeiten M=E4dchen, SchII, CD (titles to be continued) Mitch von Eiserfeld, SchI (titles to be continued) Katja von Essenbach (titles under construction) From: IN%"jeanpascal.guery@free.fr" "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Pascal_Gu=E9ry?=" 28-NOV-2000 18:19:22.40 To: IN%"Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" "Applied Ethology" CC: Subj: Contact Dear all, Could someone help me find out the Bertrand Deputte's e-mail (French primatologist) working in CNRS unit of Paimpol. Thanks in advance. Regards from Paris. Jean-Pascal Guery jeanpascal.guery@free.fr From: IN%"rsilva@netcon.com.br" "Roberto A. M. S. Silva" 28-NOV-2000 18:23:22.35 To: IN%"Applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: Ethogram for social behaviour of broiler Dear Colleagues, I am interested in develop an ethogram for social behaviour of broiler chickens reared on free range conditions. Could you help me? Sincerely, Roberto Aguilar M. S. Silva EMBRAPA/ Swine and Poultry National Research Center BR 153 km 110, Vila Tamandua CEP: 89700-000 Concordia, SC, Brazil E-mail (Lab): rsilva@cnpsa.embrapa.br E-mail (Home): rsilva@netcon.com.br From: IN%"Andreas.Briese@tiho-hannover.de" "Andreas Briese" 29-NOV-2000 06:40:00.07 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" CC: Subj: ENS-News: UK bans FUR-production with mink UK BANS MINK SLAUGHTER LONDON, United Kingdom, November 27, 2000 (ENS) - Tens of thousands of mink will be saved from slaughter now the UK has become the first country in the world to ban raising animals for their pelts. For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/nov2000/2000L-11-27-10.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Institut fuer Tierhygiene und Tierschutz Tieraerztliche Hochschule Hannover Institute of Animal Hygiene and Welfare School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Dr. med. vet. Andreas Briese Buenteweg 17p 30559 Hannover Tel.: (0511) 953-8837 (0511) 120 2102 Fax.: (0511) 953-8588 (0511) 120 99 2102 e-mail: Andreas.Briese@tiho-hannover.de alternativ (grosse Attachments): Andreas_Briese@animcare-sci.de ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: IN%"JJCooper@dmu.ac.uk" "Jonathan Cooper" 30-NOV-2000 12:15:55.71 To: IN%"applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca" "'applied-ethology@skyway.usask.ca'" CC: Subj: FW: position available > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Greenberg [SMTP:greenber@WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU] > Sent: 28 November 2000 19:53 > To: ISCP-L@LISTSERV.TCU.EDU > Subject: Fw: position available > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M McDonald" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:22 AM > Subject: position available > > > > The Murine Neurobehavioral Laboratory (MNL) at Vanderbilt University > seeks > > a Research Scientist to serve as Core Manager. The MNL is a core > facility > > jointly funded by the Center for Molecular Neuroscience and the John F. > > Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development. The MNL Manager > consults > > with investigators in and outside the Vanderbilt system in the > assessment > > of behaviors in mice, and oversees the day-to-day activities of the > Core. > > Candidates should have a PhD in Experimental Psychology or Behavioral > > Neuroscience with experience in the analysis of the behavior in mice, > > including measures related to anxiety, cognition, motor function, and/or > > drug abuse. Applicants should submit a C.V. and letters from three > > referees to: > > > > Mike McDonald, PhD > > Director, Murine Neurobehavioral Laboratory > > Center for Molecular Neuroscience > > 432 Robinson Research Bldg. > > Nashville, TN 37232-6600 > > email: mike.mcdonald@vanderbilt.edu > > > > Applications will be considered as they are received and accepted until > the > > position is filled. For more information send email or call (615) > > 936-1082. Vanderbilt University is an Affirmative Action/Equal > Opportunity > > Employer.