A project that investigates current options for managing feral pigs in Australia and assesses the need for the development of more effective and humane techniques and strategies. Stage 1 Report. Audit of current tools, techniques and practices for managing feral pigs both in Australia and overseas. A project that investigates current options for managing feral pigs in Australia and assesses the...

The literature on the use of carbon dioxide for inhalation euthanasia of laboratory animals can be considered separately for rodents and poultry. It discusses measurement of aversion to carbon dioxide at different concentrations and with different methods of use, the importance of user training and the variation amongst existing international guidelines. Recent literature recommends the use of ...

In addition to being human, we pride ourselves on being humane. What a brilliant way of establishing morality as the hallmark of human nature-by adopting our species name for charitable tendencies! Animals obviously cannot be human; could they ever by humane? If this seems an almost-rhetorical question, consider the dilemma for biologists-or anyone else adopting an evolutionary perspective. The...

Many features of today's jobs have not been produced by market forces emerging in individual private contracts. Instead, they resulted from social struggles and union bargaining, appear collective agreements, labor regulations, international laws. This paper presents one hypothesis explaining this observation: A negative correlation between workers' taste for amenities unobserved productivity. ...