Animal Welfare Matters

The National Health and Medical Research Council #NHMRC is reviewing the Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes (The Code), 8th Ed.

CONSULTATION CLOSES 16 Feb 26.
#HaveYourSay #Australia #AnimalWelfare #AnimalResearch 🧪🐁

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The Wildlife Research Student Prize for Best Paper is now open for eligible submissions. If you're a student lead author publishing in Wildlife Research, you could be eligible to win!

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#WildlifeResearch #BlueskyScience #ECRChat #PhDLife #ResearchCommunity

The National Health and Medical Research Council #NHMRC is reviewing the Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes (The Code), 8th Ed.

CONSULTATION CLOSES 16 Feb 26.
#HaveYourSay #Australia #AnimalWelfare #AnimalResearch 🧪🐁

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Household rat poisons found to be 'unacceptable risk' to native animals. So why aren't they banned? — The Conversation AU Native predators like owls and goannas are dying from eating poisoned rats and mice. Wildlife experts are shocked the government won’t ban these toxic compounds.

“Until access to these compounds is meaningfully restricted…Many native animals will continue to die slow and painful deaths.”

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A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing Kissing can be observed across the animal kingdom. This presents an evolutionary puzzle, since the fitness benefits of kissing are unclear. We use a n…

Happy Valentine's Day! 💕
Kissing is not exclusive to humans. It can be seen in a diversity of other organisms, including mammals, birds, fish, insects, and dates back 21 million years! 😘

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I'm always shocked when women betray other women too. Internalised misogyny runs deep and seems to be financially rewarding behaviour.

São Paulo names new law after dog that stayed by owner’s grave for 10 years The Bob Coveiro (the Gravedigger) Law ‘recognises the emotional bond between guardians and their pets’

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On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, this article stings after a career marked by sexual assaults, sexual harassment, stalking, work hijacked, and ideas stolen. Most recently, my married Prof asked me out for dinner. I said no. He refused to give me a reference. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

For the love of animals, people, and the planet, be like Meryl and learn how to vote #Australia #AusPol! We have a preferential voting system, so if you vote for AJP, Greens, ethical Independents, they WILL win seats to hold #ALP #LNP fuckers accountable until enough people vote them a major party.

Congratulations to all of you "dog lovers" out there who are laughing at an animal forced into a situation that causes them anxiety. Casual animal abuse is sooooo adorbs!

BRADLEY O'REILLY #MidlandBacon #CaragCarag #Australia had charges of bestiality against him dropped despite being caught on film raping #Pigs confined in a #Piggery because #AnimalWelfare activists filming #AnimalCruelty is a worse crime than actually committing it.🐖

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Today, as we mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're honouring our founder, Dr. Jane Goodall.

Her groundbreaking wild chimpanzee study – and her observations that chimpanzees make tools, form deep social bonds, and experience emotions – challenged long-held scientific beliefs.

A lot of food politics makes more sense if you understand it as an ongoing set of battles between incumbent and emergent interest groups trying to shape the market to their advantage.

YouTube video by TED The Award for Best Comedy Wildlife Photo Goes to… | Tom Sullam | TED

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Emotion in Farmed Animals: Ethical Challenges for Animal Welfare The emergence of scientific data confirming the capacity of nonhuman animals to feel what is happening to them and experience positive and negative emotions has created an uncomfortable moral dilemma ...

2026. Emotion in Farmed Animals: Ethical Challenges for Animal Welfare. www.routledge.com/Emotion-in-F...

Why are #Chicken people blocking me? I love #Chickens!? I fight for their #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare!

Is this a cognitive dissonance thing? #Confused 😵‍💫🐔❤️

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In #Australia, the welfare of #Chickens and all #Livestock #FarmAnimals is the responsibility of the state departments of primary industries or agriculture. It's like handing a cannibal a knife and fork. We need an independent Office of #AnimalWelfare. ⬇️

#Chickens are intelligent, loving animals who are wonderful mothers and friends. My friends' #Hens follow me like the Pied Piper, peck my legs gently, and purr/trill like #Cats when they trust and love you. They all have individual personalities. They deserve better #AnimalWelfare. Please help.🐔💘🥰✍️⬇️

🚨 If you do not have an #Emergency #Evacuation plan for your #Dogs #Cats #Birds #PocketPets #Reptiles #Livestock #Pets #Animals **DO ONE NOW** regardless of where you live.

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#AnimalWelfare #EmergencyEvacuation #Preparedness #PetEmergencyPlan 🐾🆘⬇️

Bad Bunny? More like good hare.

In this scene, a golden-brown hare munches on a leaf, surrounded by many smaller creatures. Look closely: a butterfly and snail rest on the fronds of a plantain, and others roam the forest floor.

🎨 A Hare in the Forest, about 1585, Hans Hoffmann. Getty Museum

The case against owning small pets Your pet fish — or bird, or hamster — is probably miserable.

Your pet fish — or bird, or hamster — is probably miserable. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Nagi is normalising taking time for our pets. Here's why that's important Experts say our pets have become such an important part of our lives that it's important to take a step back from responsibilities, if possible, when they are sick or dying.

Experts say our pets have become such an important part of our lives that it's important to take a step back from responsibilities, if possible, when they are sick or dying.

More than 80% of flying fox colony wiped out as January heatwaves kill thousands of bats Only 180 bats survived intense heat in South Australian town, including 34 babies that carers say face months of recovery

This is a #ClimateFuckingEmergency. Critical keystone species like #Bats are dying to tell you PM of #Australia @albomp.bsky.social #AusPol #ClimateCriminals to stop funding anthropogenic #ClimateChange and listen to the science!!!

#AnimalWelfare #Heatwave 🦇🔥🌏🌡️
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Agricultural emissions are roasting the planet. ⬇️

JBS are the largest meat producers in #Australia. They are criminals in every sense of the word. #TheButchersFromBrazil

#AnimalWelfare #Environment #OneWelfare #ClimateChange #AnimalAgriculture #Ecocide #Wildlife 🐾🌱🌊🌏

Close-up of the head of a lifelike male lion looking upwards created with embroidery

Austrian artist Janine Heschl creates 'textile wildlife art,' using machine embroidery to focus on wildlife protection #womensart

They only said this top bloke needed SUPPORT 437 times. Poor thing. If only he had more SUPPORT he wouldn't have had to kill his kids. I think we need a Royal Commission into how to SUPPORT these good guys so they don't have to keep killing their wives and children and pets.

The 'very simple' ways a dog knows how you're feeling Your dog is constantly reading you and using it to their advantage. These are the cues they use to foresee your next move.

Do animals gravitate toward you without invitation? Does your dog know you are about to get their dinner? Animals are better at reading people than you think. Their survival depends on reading who is safe and how to get their needs met. ⬇️ #AnimalWelfare #HAB #Dogs 🐾
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