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Animal Welfare and Behavior Links


Below is a list of websites which provide information on animal behavior and welfare.

If you know of other useful sites with animal behavior information contact us so we can add the URL below.



University / Government Based Groups

  • Applied animal behavior groups
  • General animal behavior groups


    • Other related links
  • Animal legislation
  • Behavioural software and equipment
  • Various


    • University / Government Based Groups


    Applied Animal Behavior / Welfare Groups

    USA Groups
  • Animal Welfare Information Center-- United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
  • Center for Animal Alternatives -- Davis, CA, USA
  • Center for Animal and Public Policy - Located at Tufts, offering courses studying policy aspects of human/animal relationships, companion animal and wildife issues.
  • Center for Animal Welfare -- Davis, CA, USA
  • Michigan State University --  East Lansing, MI, USA
  • Oregan State University --  OR, USA
  • Texas Tech University --  TX, USA
  • Texas A & M --  College Station, TX, USA
  • United States Department of Agriculture Livestock Behavior -- West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • United States Department of Agriculture Livestock Issues -- Lubbock, TX, USA
  • University of California-Davis -- Davis, CA, USA
  • University of Kentucky - Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
  • University of Washington- Animal behavior program
  • Washington State University



    • International Groups
  • Animal Welfare Center -- Australia
  • Animal Welfare Information Center -- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • Colonel K.L. Campbell Center for the Study of Animal Welfare -- University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
  • Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences-- Foulum, Denmark
  • Department of Food and Rural Affairs -- DEFRA, UK
  • European Union
  • Laval University- Quebec
  • Lincolnshire School of Agriculture -- behaviour problems -- Lincoln, UK
  • Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agronomique -- INRA, Nouzilly, France
  • Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry -- MAF, New Zealand
  • Prairie Swine Center
  • Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University -- Frederiksberg C, Denmark
  • Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Center -- University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
  • Swedish University of Agriculture -- Skara, Sweden
  • University of Bristol -- Langford, UK
  • University of British Columbia -- Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • University College Chester (A college of the University of Liverpool)- information on a B.Sc. program in Animal Behavior and Welfare
  • University of Edinburgh- Postgraduate Program in Applied Animal Behavior and Animal Welfare
  • University of Guelph - Guelph, Ontario
  • University of Oxford -- Oxfordshire, UK
  • University of Saskatchewan -- Saskatoon, SK, Canada
  • Scottish Agricultural College -- Edinburgh, UK
  • Wageningen University -- Wageningen, The Netherlands




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    General Animal Behavior groups


    USA Groups
  • Canisius College - Animal behavior concentration
  • Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior - includes information on a Program in Animal Behavior
  • Cornell University- Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Field Studies of Animal Behavior - Course Description and information provided by Dr. Paul J. Watson
  • Maryland University
  • Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group -- University of Nebraska
  • Rutgers University - Behavioral and Neural Sciences (BNS) and the Institute for Animal Behavior
  • University of Colorado at Boulder- Institute for Behavioral Genetics



    • International Groups
  • Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Ethology -- Vienna, Austria
  • Oxford University- Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University - Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina- Florianopolis, Brasil. (Portugese. Suggest you use Google to search for UFSC and CCA, then translate page)




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    Professional societies and associations related to animal behavior

    The key Society for scientific study for animal welfare issues is the International Society of Applied Ethology (ISAE)



    USA Groups


    International Groups



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    Animal legislation
  • Animal Legal and Historical Center -- US and international animal-related laws and cases
  • European Convention -- for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experimental purposes
  • New Zealand
  • Philippines -- the animal welfare act of 1998
  • Sweden -- the animal welfare act; the animal welfare ordinance
  • Switzerland -- federal veterinary office with links to animal welfare legislation
  • Taiwan -- animal protection laws




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    Behavioral software and equipment
  • Behavioral Phenotyping -- software for your behavioral data recording and analysis purposes
  • Biobserve -- software, mobile systems and equipment for behavioral data recording
  • IGER Behaviour Recorder -- a computer-based logger for automatic recording of foraging behavior
  • Minni Mitter -- physiological and behavioral monitoring for humans and animals
  • Noldus Information Technology -- behavioral software: The Observer, EthoVision, UltraVox, MatMan
  • TrackSys, Ltd. -- software solutions for behavioral research




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    Various other animal related sites

  • Animal Planet on the Discovery Channel
  • Animals -- computer simulations of animal behaviour
  • Animal Self-Medication
  • Animal Welfare / Animal Rights Sites -- a list of links (not all still active)
  • Canadian Council on Animal Care
  • Canadian Veterinary Medical Association -- animal welfare position statements
  • Center for the Human-Animal Bond -- Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine
  • Companion Animal Behavior Counseling Programs  -- by the American Institute for Animal Science
  • Dr. Temple Grandin's Home Page
  • Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Behavior
  • Equine ethology project -- White Horse Farm
  • Humane Society of the United States
  • Institute of Ethology - Wolf Park
  • Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology -- human behavior
  • National Biosecurity Resource Center- Information on animal health and disease
  • NetVet and the Electronic Zoo
  • Polled Holsteins -- a site by Frank Bouic, OH, USA
  • Quietwean-- a two-step, "low-stress" weaning method for cattle
  • Universities Federation for Animal Welfare -- UFAW