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"Welfare assessments need to be part of all wildlife monitoring," says animal welfare scientist Andrea Harvey.

Authors of a just-published review seek to determine what is normal, beyond domestic horse yards.

"Cougar predation appears to rewire an ancient food web, with diverse implications for modern ecosystems."

Horsetalk.co.nz You’re on Candid Camera: Wilderness camera traps used to explore wild horse welfare Share One of the many wild horse images captured in the Australian study. Photo: Harvey et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11072101 Researchers have successfully used photographs and videos collected from camera traps to make welfare assessments of free-roaming wild horses. The researchers were able to identify a majority of the horses captured by the cameras, having applied a previously developed protocol for scientifically assessing the welfare of each animal. “Camera trapping was...

Feral Desert Donkeys Are Digging Wells, Giving Water To Parched Wildlife Share Published 6 days ago: May 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm In the heart of the world’s deserts – some of the most expansive wild places left on Earth – roam herds of feral donkeys and horses. These are the descendants of a once-essential but now-obsolete labour force. These wild animals are generally considered a threat to the natural environment, and have been the target of mass eradication and lethal control programs in Australia. However, as we show in a new research paper in Science, these animals do something amazin...