Wild Animal Initiative

@wildanimals.bsky.social

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Conducting research, providing funding, and supporting researchers to accelerate science that helps wild animals. wildanimalinitiative.org

A picture of a whiteboard that has been written on with green and purple markers. There is some actual work-related content on the whiteboard, as well as: "Critters??? scuttly / smallish." Evidently this was a worthwhile thing to discuss on a recent team retreat.
Figure courtesy of Research in Veterinary Science. Fig. 4. Characteristics of wild animal welfare research articles with at least one author found to have a veterinary background. Results are represented in terms of publication frequency of individual authors, authorship order, involvement of individual authors in research conceptualization and further qualifications.
Figure courtesy of Research in Veterinary Science. Fig. 1. Proportion of articles which author list includes at least one author with a veterinary background. Articles are categorized by theme sections corresponding to established research disciplines (animal behaviour, ecology/evolution, conservation, physiology). Different letters represent different proportions of articles including authors with a veterinary background between sections.
Fig. 1. Percentage of sampled individuals with injuries and/or deformity. Image courtesy of Animal Welfare.
Beaulieu M. (2026). Biology Letters 22: 20250424
Beaulieu M. (2026). Biology Letters 22: 20250424
Conservation vs tourism
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