Ngaio Beausoleil | |
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 Beausoleil in 2005 | |
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| Alma mater | Massey University |
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| Doctoral advisor | David Mellor, Kevin Stafford |
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| Institutions | Massey University |
Ngaio Jessica Beausoleil is a New Zealand academic,and is a full professor at Massey University,specialising in animal welfare and the cross-disciplinary field of conservation welfare.
Beausoleil completed a PhD titled Behavioural and physiological responses of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) to the presence of humans and dogs at the Massey University. [1] Beausoleil then joined the faculty of Massey University,rising to full professor in 2023. [2] She is Co-Director of the Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre at the university. [2]
Beausoleil is Chair of the editorial board of the New Zealand Veterinary Journal,the first woman and non-veterinarian to hold the position. She serves as scientific expert on the Australia New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching. [2] In 2020 she was involved in a review of the Victoria State Government's Wildlife Act,as international expert. [2]
Beausoleil's research focuses on animal welfare,and is a leader in the field of conservation welfare,which attempts to understand and mitigate human effects on wildlife. [2] She co-led the development of the 'Five Domains' model of animal welfare,which has been widely adopted both in New Zealand and overseas. [2] She was part of a team that developed a protocol for assessing animal welfare in wild animals. [3] With colleague David Mellor,she has reviewed the welfare of horses during exercise,describing how bridles with bits may increase animal breathlessness and therefore both cause welfare issues and decrease athletic performance. [4] She has also commented on the animal welfare of fast-growing broiler chickens,in comparison to slower-growing breeds,and how animal welfare law could be improved. [5] [6]
The mouflon is a wild sheep native to Cyprus, the Caspian region from eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. It is thought to be the ancestor of all modern domestic sheep breeds.
The bighorn sheep is a species of sheep native to North America. It is named for its large horns. A pair of horns might weigh up to 14 kg (30 lb); the sheep typically weigh up to 143 kg (315 lb). Recent genetic testing indicates three distinct subspecies of Ovis canadensis, one of which is endangered: O. c. sierrae.
The purple-tailed imperial pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is sometimes affected by Gunabopicobia parasites.
Animal welfare science is the scientific study of the welfare of animals as pets, in zoos, laboratories, on farms and in the wild. Although animal welfare has been of great concern for many thousands of years in religion and culture, the investigation of animal welfare using rigorous scientific methods is a relatively recent development. The world's first Professor of Animal Welfare Science, Donald Broom, was appointed by Cambridge University (UK) in 1986.
Cats are a popular pet in New Zealand. Cat ownership is occasionally raised as a controversial conservation issue due to the predation of endangered species, such as birds and lizards, by feral cats.
Marti J. Anderson is an ecological statistician whose works is interdisciplinary, from marine biology and ecology to mathematical and applied statistics. Her core areas of research and expertise are: community ecology, biodiversity, multivariate analysis, resampling methods, experimental designs, and statistical models of species abundances. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, she is a Distinguished Professor in the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at Massey University and also the Director of the New Zealand research and software-development company, PRIMER-e.
Dianne Heather Brunton is a New Zealand ecologist, and head of the Institute of Natural and Computational Sciences at Massey University. Her research area is the behaviour and cultural evolution of animal communication, especially bird song in southern hemisphere species such as the New Zealand bellbird.
Alison Jane Hanlon is a veterinary research scientist who advocates for animal welfare, including that of companion animals, horses and farm animals. She is a professor at University College Dublin and has worked on a number of government advisory groups.
Barbara Louise Chilvers is a New Zealand marine biologist who researches marine mammals. She is Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the School of Veterinary Science at Massey University and Director of Wildbase Oiled Wildlife Response at the university.
Wendi Dianne Roe is a New Zealand veterinary pathologist who specialises in researching marine mammals. She is Professor of Veterinary and Marine Mammal Pathology and Deputy Head of the School of Veterinary Science at Massey University.
Conservation welfare is a proposed discipline which would focus on establishing the commonalities between conservation and animal welfare and the formation of a foundation upon which the two disciplines can collaborate to further their respective objectives. It would be based on the principles of Peter Singer's utilitarianism and similarly to compassionate conservation, its focus would diverge from environmental ethics in that it concentrates on the welfare of individual animals, rather than species, ecosystems or populations. It has been argued that conservation welfare would be distinct from compassionate conservation because the two disciplines have differing conceptions of the harms experienced by wild animals and that while conservation welfare would seek to engage with conservation scientists and integrate animal welfare into existing conservation practices, compassionate conservation may lack the capacity to "guide decision-making in complex or novel situations."
Karen Ann Stockin is a New Zealand academic marine ecologist, and as of 2021 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on animal welfare and the impacts of human activities on cetacean populations, including tourism effects, and persistent marine contaminants.
Jennifer Lee Juengel is an animal health researcher in New Zealand. She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2016.
Isabel Castro is professor of wildlife biology at Massey University in New Zealand. Her research focuses on conservation biology, primarily of birds and native ecosystems, but also including invertebrates and introduced mammals. She is a principal investigator in the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence.
Jackie Benschop is a New Zealand Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Massey University, specialising in the animal–human–environment interface, particularly for Leptospira, Campylobacter and Salmonella. She is a member of the World Health Organisation's Steering Committee for the Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network, and a co-founder of the African Leptospirosis Network.
Horse pain caused by the bit refers to the various painful sensations of varying intensity and duration that horses may experience from the use of a bit during riding, due to poor adaptation of the equipment to their morphology or excessive stress. These pains are frequently associated with oral lesions, particularly in the corners of the mouth, interdental spaces, premolars and tongue. Rarely visible from the outside, for example through hemorrhage, these lesions receive little attention. Pain and lesions are accompanied by fear and anxiety in the animal. They potentially concern all horses wearing a bit manipulated by a human being via reins, whether mounted or harnessed, in particular by the application of great tension in these reins.
Marie Wong is a New Zealand academic food technologist, and as of 2020 is a full professor at Massey University.
Andrea Martine 't Mannetje was a New Zealand epidemiologist, and was a full professor at Massey University. She specialised in occupational causes of cancer, but also worked on environmental causes of neurodegenerative diseases, birth defects, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Pamela Ruth von Hurst is a New Zealand academic and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in human nutrition.
Juliana Mansvelt is a New Zealand social geographer and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in the geographies of ageing and consumption.
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