Assessing emotion in animals is fundamental to the study of animal welfare with methodologies for reliable and valid assessments being highly desirable. Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) is based ...
Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA) offers a holistic approach to evaluating farm animal welfare by capturing the expressive demeanour of animals through descriptors such as calm, anxious or ...
This study investigates for the first time the application of Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA) to the analysis of acute pain expression in castrated lambs. Eighty 2-day-old male lambs were ...