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Daniel M. Weary, DPhil

May 9, 2011 - 9:57am — Ethan

Professor, Applied Biology; Animal Welfare Program; NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare

Education

Post-doctoral fellow at McGill, Queen’s and Concordia Universities
DPhil, Department of Zoology, Oxford
BSc and MSc, Biology, McGill University

Research Interests

Dan works with students and colleagues in the Animal Welfare Program using behavioural and other non-invasive measures to objectively assess various aspects of animal well-being. One focus of recent work is the dairy cow, and welfare issues important in this species.

In his graduate and postdoctoral work Dan focused on acoustic communication and vocal behavior in wild birds and mammals. He has now turned his interests to the development of objective methods of assessing animal well-being. This more recent work includes more basic research on how vocal and other behaviors can provide us with information about an animal's physical and emotional state, as well as how these measures can be applied to find better ways of handling animals

For more details, please visit the Animal Welfare Program web site.

Current projects

Current projects include work on cow comfort and free-stall design, calf rearing and calf housing. We are also pursuing new projects on the welfare of laboratory, companion and wild animals.