Violent partners exploit the relationship between owners and their companion animals

Women in domestic violence relationships delay leaving due to concern their abusive partner might hurt or neglect their animals left at home.

8 October 2017
Hobo, a northern hairy-nosed wombat rescued by Tina Janssen of Australian Animals Care and Education Sanctuary

Do you know the difference between freezing wombat sperm and koala sperm?

7 June 2017

An annual $10,000 scholarship to support research into improving farm animal welfare has been launched.

27 June 2011

Buyer behaviour towards food products and animal welfare is the key to changes in animal welfare legislation and standards in Australia, according to the world’s first Professor of Animal Welfare.

22 February 2011
Dr Andrew Robins

Terms like “giving the evil eye” and “right hand man” have been commonplace since the ancient Greeks realised that humans perceive their world very differently on the left and right sides of their body.

14 November 2010

Professor Clive Phillips from The University of Queensland is giving animals a voice in a new book.

26 November 2008

Pain relief and faster healing for beef cattle that have been dehorned is the aim of a UQ PhD student’s award-winning project.

6 November 2008

Herding dogs such as Border Collies and Australian cattle dogs are more likely to bark excessively than other classes of dogs, according to a new UQ study to be released at a Brisbane conference next week.

29 June 2005

The behaviour of an endangered group of wild cattle may hold some solutions for reducing stress in domesticated beef and dairy herds, according to a University of Queensland (UQ) academic.

29 September 2004

The University of Queensland’s inaugural Chair of Animal Welfare has seen first-hand what live-export conditions are like for sheep and cattle.

14 April 2004

A new direction in the way we look after our animals is the aim for Australia’s first Professor of Animal Welfare.

23 September 2003

Prominent British animal scientist Clive Phillips has been appointed the University of Queensland’s (and Australia’s) first Professor of Animal Welfare.

28 February 2003