News about Animals

Ethicists’ commentary on treating animals without payment or without owners

Ethical question of the month, February 2022 You manage a multi-doctor practice in a low-income area of a city. You have accepted many animals that have been hit by cars; however, these animals are never claimed, or…

Estimating the Population of Unowned Free-Ranging Domestic Cats in Denmark

This study estimated the size of the population of unowned free-ranging domestic cats and their distribution in Denmark using a combination of questionnaires and GPS tracking

Ethicist’s commentary on use of Ventilation Shut Down

Ethical question of the month, December 2021 Ventilation Shut Down (VSD) and VSD 1 (the plus is the addition of heat or CO2) is a mass depopulation method employed in barns in “constrained circumstances” by the poultry…

Market driven initiatives can improve broiler welfare – A comparison across five European countries

Market driven initiatives can have a strong impact on improving broiler welfare, building on those standards achieved by animal welfare legislation.

Insect wingbeats will help quantify biodiversity

Insect populations are plummeting worldwide, with major consequences for our ecosystems and without us quite knowing why. A new AI method from the University of Copenhagen is set to help monitor and catalogue insect…

Positive animal welfare: Bridging the gap or raising inequalities worldwide?

This paper takes a comparative approach to the ways animals are kept in various parts of the world, and highlights the opportunities and potential barriers to promote positive animal welfare in a global context.

After thousands of years, an iconic whale confronts a new enemy

The iconic tusked whale of the Arctic has a new enemy – noise. A unique study from the University of Copenhagen and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources shows that narwhals are highly affected by noise from ship…

New phenomenon: Forest mammals eavesdrop on messy monkeys

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a unique phenomenon among forest mammals – eavesdropping. Their study demonstrates that various animal species depend on one another in more ways than ever…

Tigers end their days in high-pressure cookers

Thousands of tigers, bred on farms like pigs and raised in basements, end up in high-pressure cookers, where their bones are dissolved and transformed into traditional medicine. University of Copenhagen researchers are…

Colleague suspected of illegal behavior

Ethical question of the month, September 2021 You provide regular 1 day per week locum services to a solo small animal veterinarian. You receive a call from the Registrar of the provincial veterinary regulator. With no…

Zebrafish reproduction affected by plastic particles in the aquatic environment

Plastic nanoparticles cause mild inflammation, disrupt metabolic pathways, change the gut microbiota and affect reproduction in zebrafish.

Veterinarians’ course of treatment based on financial concerns

Ethical question of the month, August 2021 You are an employee of a veterinary hospital with strict billing protocols. If a treatment is deemed necessary to avoid unnecessary suffering or death then an estimate is…

Depopulating healthy university animals

Ethical question of the month, July 2021 A veterinarian has a long-term contract with the animal care committee of a university in good standing with the Canadian Council of Animal Care (CCAC). He was informed by an…

Taking up red nanoplastic particles and showing green neutrophils

Our new Zeiss V8 stereo microscope have captured the red nanoplastic particles taken up by the zebrafish and the Artemia.

New edible cricket species discovered in Kenya

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya, have discovered a new, previously undescribed edible cricket with great promise for mass production for human…

Farmers to use insects as their new livestock

From 2008-2013 the idea developed and since it has been met with great interest from farmers and especially the media. Nanna Roos wants to create a food production of insects and her first endeavors to achieve this took…

Technical Brief #5 Nutrition

GREEiNSECT Technical Brief #5 on Nutrition of insects as food released

Technical Brief #4 Gastronomy

GREEiNSECT Brief #4 on insect gastronomy released

GREEiNSECT PhD Defence by Afton Halloran

Afton Halloran will be the 1st GREEiNSECT PhD student to defend her thesis

Consumer attitudes Technical Brief #3

The technical brief #3 compiles information on studies regarding Kenyan consumers' preference and attitiude and willingness to pay for insect-based food products , investigated under the GREEiNSECT project.

GREEiNSECT Technical Brief #2 Farming Systems

The technical brief #2 provides an overview of farming systems for crickets and black soldier fly, currently investigated under the GREEiNSECT project.

Research and Innovation Cafe

In collaboration with the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Nordic Food Lab, GREEiNSECT took part in the first Research and Innovation Cafe at the Faculty of Science in Fredriksberg. The Cafe is a new…

Gene technology deceives greedy pest insects

PhD Thesis by Morten Emil Møldrup