CABI Blog

Discerning common carp find music, Morzart’s “Eine Kleine Nacht Musik”, to be precise, stress relieving or inducing depending on how it is played to them. The authors of this study discuss the possible use of music as a growth promoter or an enrichment tool to improve fish welfare in intensive fish farming. This fascinating application…

Listening to the news on the BBC radio 4 this morning (6 December) I heard an item about a condition similar to Alzheimer’s disease being found in cats. This story would probably not surprise anyone who has lived with an aging pet, even though the range of cognitive tasks required of the domestic cat does…

"This tiger fur is OK, it’s farmed", is this a phrase that we will soon be hearing? The Liberty Institute, a free-market think tank based in New Delhi, India, has suggested that farming tigers could prevent wild tigers being hunted to extinction. The Institute estimates that approximately 4000 tigers are already being reared in farms…