Monday 7 August
15.00-18.00 | Registration at Aarhus University, Main Hall |
17.00-19.00 | Welcome reception at Aarhus University. Venue: Main Hall |
Tuesday 8 August
8.00 | Placing of posters and registration | |
9.00 | Opening Ceremony at Aarhus Music Hall. Venue: Rhythmic Hall | |
9.45 | Wood-Gush Memorial Lecture: Peter Teglberg Madsen: Echolocating whales as models for studying how information flow governs behaviour. Venue: Aarhus Music Hall, Rhythmic Hall Chairperson: Margit Bak Jensen | |
10.30 | Break | |
| Session 1, Topic 01 at Rhythmic Hall: The world of animals: senses and perception Chairperson: Kathryn Proudfoot | Session 2, Topic 02 at Small Hall: Free papers Chairperson: Janice Siegford |
11.30 | Key-note: The role of olfaction in relation to stress and fear. Vincent Bombail | Key-note: Literature review on priority welfare issues of commercially raised bison in North America. John S. Church |
12.00 | Olfactory enrichment for cattle? Development of tests for determining olfactory investigation of complex odours in cattle. Maria Vilain Rørvang | Associations between measures of rising and lying down behaviour in dairy cows. Nina Dam Otten |
12.15 | Do dogs see the Ponzo illusion? Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere | Feedlot cattle are motivated to obtain roughage and show contrafreeloading. Cassandra Tucker |
12.30 | Lunch sponsored by DeLaval Regional Secretaries’ lunch | |
| Session 3, Topic 01 at Rhythmic Hall: The world of animals: senses and perception Chairperson: Linda Keeling | Session 4, Topic 03 at Small Hall: Human-animal interactions Chairperson: Marie Haskell |
13.30 | Key-note: Taking into account different sensory abilities of animals in their housing and management. Birte L. Nielsen | Key-note: Dogs, humans and genes: evidence for mutualistic symbiosis? Per Jensen |
14.00 | The impact of ultraviolet wavelength on broiler chicken welfare indicators. Charlotte James | Rat tickling: a systematic review of methods, outcomes and moderators. Megan R. Lafollette |
14.15 | How incline angel affects the preparatory step prior to climbing a ramp in domestic fowl? Alexandra Harlander | Cattle handling by untrained stockpeople gets worse along a vaccination work day. Maria Camilla Ceballos |
14.30 | Do mink mothers recognise their kits’ vocalisations? Jens Malmkvist | The behavioural and physiological responses of horses to routine handling. Jenna Kiddie |
14.45 | Behavioural indicators for cats’ perception of food: A novel tool for development of veterinary pharmaceuticals. Helena Telkanranta | Tourism and marine mammal welfare. Donald Broom |
15.00 | Break and poster session 1 | |
16.00 | ISAE AGM | |
17.30 | Reception at the Town Hall of Aarhus (1 h) | |
Wednesday 9 August
9.00 | PLENARY: Mike Appleby: Understanding human and other animal behaviour: ethology, welfare and food policy. Venue: Aarhus Music Hall, Rhythmic Hall Chairperson: Mette S. Herskin | |
| Session 5, Topic 04 at Rhythmic Hall: Applying ethology in the keeping of animals Chairperson: Trevor DeVries | Session 6, Topic 02 at Small Hall: Free papers Chairperson: Ruth Newberry |
9.30 | The welfare of working dogs in cars. Lena M. Skånberg | The limits of animal welfare concepts. Jes Harfeld |
9.45 | Do cull dairy cows become lame from being transported? Kirstin Dahl-Pedersen | Behaviour and brain gene expression of environmentally enriched pigs. Alistair Lawrence |
10.00 | The effect of overstocking different resources within a freestall pen on the behaviour of lactating Holstein cows. Clay Kesterson | Can body nosing in early-weaned piglets be prevented by artificial sucking and nosing devices? Roland Weber |
10.15 | Effect of water temperature on drinking behavior and stress response of sheep. Shin-ichiro Ogura | Multiple enriched cages increase silver fox cubs’ confidence and reduce stereotypic head twirls. Anne Lene Hovland |
10.30 | Break and poster session 2 | |
| Session 7, Topic 04 at Rhythmic Hall: Applying ethology in the keeping of animals Chairperson: Stefan Gunnarsson | Session 8, Topic 05 at Small Hall: Animal stress responses Chairperson: Jeremy Marchant-Forde |
11.30 | Effects of genetic background and selection for egg production on food motivation in laying hens. Anissa Dudde | Who's stressed? Nonlinear measures of heart rate variability may provide new clues for evaluating the swine stress response. Christopher J. Byrd |
11.45 | On-farm techniques used to minimize aggression in pigs by US pork producers. Sarah H. Ison | Effect of space allowance and simulated sea transport motion on the behaviour and heart rate of sheep. Grisel Navarro |
12.00 | If you give the pig a choice: suckling piglets eat more from a diverse diet. Anouschka Middelkoop | Effects of acute lying and sleep deprivation on behaviour and milk production of lactating Holstein dairy cows. Jessie A. Kull |
12.15 | Impact of straw particle size and reticulorumen health on the feed sorting behaviour of early lactation dairy cows. Rachael Coon | Can faecal cortisol metabolites be used as an Iceberg indicator in the on-farm welfare assessment system WelFur-Mink? Anna F. Marsbøll |
12.30 | Lunch Students’ lunch “Eating with ethologists” | |
| Session 9, Topic 06 at Rhythmic Hall: Animal learning and cognition Chairperson: Dorte Bratbo Sørensen | Session 10, Topic 05 at Small Hall: Animal stress responses Chairperson: Alistair Lawrence |
13.30 | Key-note: From Pavlov to Bekhterev – and the pros and cons of positive and negative reinforcement. Janne Winther Christensen | Key-note: The effect of a low dose of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on physiology and behaviour of individually housed pigs. Janicke Nordgreen |
14.00 | Development of an ethical virtual fencing system for sheep. Danila Marini | Effects of embryonic norepinephrine on juvenile and mature quail behaviors. Jasmine Mengers |
14.15 | Motor self-regulation by goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) in a detour-reaching task. Jan Langbein | The influence of social stress on three selected lines of laying hens. Patrick Birkl |
14.30 | Cylinder size affects cat performance in the motor self-regulation task. Katarzyna Bobrowicz | Feather pecking: is it in the way hens cope with stress? Jerine A. J. Van Der Eijk |
14.45 | Factors affecting dairy calves' abilities to learn to use colour cues to locate a source of milk. Jeffrey Rushen | Do feather peckers, victims and control hens differ in symmetry of bilateral traits, body weight and comb size? Fernanda M. Tahamtani |
15.00 | Break and poster session 3 | |
| Session 11, Topic 06 at Rhythmic Hall: Animal learning and cognition Chairperson: Jan Ladewig | Session 12, Topic 05 at Small Hall: Animal stress responses Chairperson: Anna Valros |
16.00 | Goats prefer happy human faces. Christian Nawroth | Investigation of response to the novel object test in pigs in relation to tail biting phenotypes. Jen-Yun Chou |
16.15 | Responses in novelty tests are associated with grain intake and unrewarded visits to the milk feeder in dairy calves. Heather W. Neave | Effects of elevated platforms on fearfulness in fast-growing broilers. Ida J. Pedersen |
16.30 | Light during incubation and noise around hatching affect cognitive bias in laying hens. Bas T. Rodenburg | Meloxicam and temperament effects on pain sensitivity and inflammatory response in surgical or rubber ring castrated calves. Désirée Soares |
16.45 | Facial expressions of emotion influence sheep learning in a visual discrimination task. Lucille Bellegarde | Cat responses to handling: Assessment of scruffing, clips, and full body restraint. Carly Moody |
18.30 | Conference dinner. Venue: Turbine Halls, Aarhus | |
Thursday 10 August
9.00 | PLENARY: Jean-Loup Rault: Positive social behaviour: Inside out. Venue: Aarhus Music Hall, Rhythmic Hall Chairperson: Lene Munksgaard | |
| Session 13, Topic 07 at Rhythmic Hall: Social behaviour of animals Chairperson: Bas Rodenburg | Session 14, Topic 04 at Small Hall: Applying ethology in the keeping of animals Chairperson: Michael Cockram |
9.45 | Artificial intelligence algorithms as modern tool for behavioural analysis in dairy cows. Oleksiy Guzhva | Lowered tail can predict a tail biting outbreak in grower pigs. Helle Pelant Lahrmann |
10.00 | Best friends forever, new approach to automatic registration of changes in social networking in dairy cows. Per Peetz Nielsen | Using hen-mounted light sensors to monitor outdoor range use. Stephanie Buijs |
10.15 | Phenolab: ultra-wide band tracking shows feather pecking hens spent less time in close proximity compared to controls. Elske N. De Haas | Housing laboratory mice from the mouse’s point of view. Elin M. Weber |
10.30 | Break and poster session 4 | |
| Session 15, Topic 07 at Rhythmic Hall: Social behaviour of animals Chairperson: Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen | Session 16, Topic 04 at Small Hall: Applying ethology in the keeping of animals Chairperson: Anja Brinch Riber |
11.30 | Floor feeding over multiple drops does not increase feeding opportunities for submissive sows. Megan Verdon | Welfare relevance of floor area for single-housed female mink (Neovison vison). María Díez-León |
11.45 | The effect of socialization before weaning on social behaviour and performance in piglets (Sus scrofa) at a commercial farm. Laura Salazar | Differential effects of enrichment on the subtypes of stereotypic behaviour in mink. Andrea Polanco |
12.00 | Socialisation, play behaviour, and the development of aggression in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa). Jennifer Weller | Effects of space allowance and simulated sea transport motion on the behavior. Ramazan Col
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12.15 | Intensity of aggression in pigs depends on their age and experience at testing. Irene Camerlink | Cooling cows with soakers: effects of flow rate and spray frequency on behaviour and physiology. Grazyne Tresoldi |
12.30 | Lunch Global Development Lunch for attendees from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe | |
| Session 17, Topic 08 at Rhythmic Hall: Animal affective states Chairperson: Björn Forkman | Session 18, Topic 09 at Small Hall: Maternal and neonatal behaviour Chairperson: Janne Winther Christensen |
13.30 | Key-note: What can facial expression reveal about animal welfare? Supporting evidence and potential pitfalls. Kris Descovich | Key-note: The affective dyad: the role of maternal behaviour in positive affective states of mother and young. Cathy M. Dwyer |
14.00 | Do dogs smile when happy? An objective and comparative study of dog and human facial actions in response to emotional trigger. Cátia Correia-Caeiro | Dairy cows and heifers prefer to calve in a bedded pack barn or natural forage compared to open pasture. Erika M. Edwards |
14.15 | Facial expression of harbour seal pups (Phoca vitulina) in response to painful stimuli. Amelia Mari Macrae | Factors affecting maternal protective behavior in Nellore cows. Marcia Del Campo |
14.30 | The startle response as a measure of fear in dairy calves. Sarah J. J. Adcock | Preference for mother does not last long after weaning in lambs. Rodolfo Ungerfeld |
14.45 | Pre-weaning environment affects pigs’ emotional reactivity. Oceane Schmitt | Behavioral responses of dairy calves to separation: the effect of nutritional dependency on the dam. Julie Føske Johnsen |
15.00 | Break and poster session 5 | |
| Session 19, Topic 08 at Rhythmic Hall: Animal affective states Chairperson: Andrew Janczak | Session 20, Topic 09 at Small Hall: Maternal and neonatal behaviour Chairperson: Sandra Edwards |
16.00 | Lying around with nothing to do: boredom in farmed mink. Rebecca K. Meagher | Does farrowing duration affect maternal behaviour of outdoor kept sows? Cecilie Kobek Thorsen |
16.15 | Can minor, easily applied alterations of routines during the rearing period reduce fearfulness in adult laying hens? Margrethe Brantsæter | Does dietary tryptophan around farrowing affect sow behavior and piglet mortality? Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde |
16.30 | Assessing anxious states in sheep: a more practical attention bias test. Jessica Monk | Relationships between sow conformation, accelerometer data and crushing events in commercial piglet production. Stephanie Matheson |
16.45 | Development of behavioural tests for WelFur on-farm welfare assessment of foxes. Jaakko Mononen | Effects of litter size on maternal investment and neonatal competition in pigs with different genetic selection pressures. Marko Ocepek |
17.10 | Closing of conference. Venue: Aarhus Music Hall, Rhythmic Hall | |
18.00 | Farewell Reception. Venue: Aarhus Music Hall | |
