Database on Refinement of Housing, Husbandry, Care, and Use of Animals in ResearchThis database, created in 2000, is updated every four months with newly published scientific articles, books, and ...

The calves of the semiwild herd were naturally weaned at the age of 7 to 14 months. The weaning process lasted up to 2 weeks. Female calves were prevented by their mothers from sucking any longer at ...

Growing interest in commercial octopus farming threatens to subject these cognitively complex, sentient animals to inhumane ...

To help promote the use of such ethical, ecologically responsible, and affordable solutions, AWI has long supported the efforts of the Beaver Institute, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, reintroduced today in the US House of ...

Tens of millions of animals are used annually for research, testing, and education throughout the United States. Facilities ...

The AWI Quarterly is the magazine of the Animal Welfare Institute. This full-color periodical examines issues regarding animals everywhere—in the laboratory, on the farm, in commercial trade, at home, ...

I trained two [adult] male Rhesus over the past year with the pole and collar system and neither of them need the squeeze mechanism to hook their collar. One of them sits still and waits for me to ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds recent announcements by the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and ...