Providing research pigs with enrichment objects can encourage species-typical behavior such as rooting and foraging. The authors gave pigs hard plastic 'foraging balls' that resembled enrichment ...

Birds, presumably outraged that we humans are attempting to enter the skies that have long belonged to them, are a high-risk problem for airports. Thousands of birds every year are struck by planes or ...

Cognitive studies on non-human animals have historically focused on species of rodents, marine mammals, primates, and even dogs. Today, more and more research has emerged exploring the intelligence of ...

Amsterdam Schiphol airport’s operator is to carry out a bird-control trial which centres on the use of pigs. It will take place on a plot of land, with an area of about 2ha, situated between runways ...