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    Welfare and severity assessment

    Welfare and severity assessment

    • Progress in assessing animal welfare in relation to new legislation: Opportunities for behavioural researchers (2014, not open access)
    • Identifying and managing distress, suffering and pain in cephalopods, including anesthesia, analgesia and humane killing (2013, not open access)
    • Guidance on the severity classification of scientific procedures involving fish (2011, Working Group convened by Norecopa)
    • A guide to defining and implementing protocols for the welfare assessment of laboratory animals (2011, with BVAAWF/FRAME/UFAW, published version)
    • Guide to defining and implementing welfare assessment protocols (2010, full version)
    • Refinement through better animal monitoring: How behavioural researchers can contribute (2010; p153-4)

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