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Is it really safe to feed vegan diets to cats?
In this article Alex provides a fact check on a recent article suggesting there are health benefits of vegan diets for cats. Spoiler...
Alex Whittaker
Sep 15, 20231 min read
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Vegan Diets for Cats
There has been a lot of discussion this week about the safety or otherwise of vegan diets after a paper was published suggesting that...
Alex Whittaker
Sep 15, 20231 min read
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The Challenges of Reptile Welfare Assessment
Alex recently presented at a webinar run by Dr Sabrina Brando at Animal Concepts on welfare assessment in reptiles, highlighting some of...
Alex Whittaker
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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How does animal science research influence policy reform?
Animal sciences is a field that encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including animal behavior, physiology, nutrition, genetics, and...
Alex Whittaker
Apr 17, 20233 min read
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Animal welfare law reform- have your say
In this explainer I write a little about some of the provisions of animal welfare legislation that are most likely to be reformed during...
Alex Whittaker
Mar 14, 20231 min read
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Chemobrain and exercise- what's the deal?
As someone who is a little bit of a gym fanatic (to put it mildly) and has a research program investigating the impacts of chemotherapy...
Alex Whittaker
Feb 26, 20232 min read
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More on vegan pet diets...
Alex recently gave an interview to Radio Adelaide about the group's new research on health impacts of vegan pet diets. Key take home:...
Alex Whittaker
Jan 20, 20231 min read
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The evidence on vegan pet diets
We recently reviewed the evidence on the health impacts of vegan diets for pets. Get a brief round-up on what we found right here (with...
Alex Whittaker
Jan 13, 20231 min read
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Public Perceptions of Animal Welfare Laws
Rochelle recently published one of her final PhD studies which involved surveying a representative sample of the Australian public on...
Alex Whittaker
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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Cold-blooded but not cold-hearted: reptile emotions
Fresh Science recently released an article about our ongoing work to discover methods to assess reptile welfare. You can read the full...
Alex Whittaker
Aug 29, 20221 min read
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Radio Interviews
Congratulations to Jess who did a radio interview for ABC Perth recently around her Conversation article on Tricia the elephant. This...
Alex Whittaker
Aug 23, 20221 min read
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Community Attitudes to Research Animal Use
ANZCCART recently commissioned us to conduct a study on Australian public understandings of, and values associated with animal research....
Alex Whittaker
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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Zoo Animal Welfare
Jess and I recently published a Conversation article in response to the death of Tricia the elephant at Perth Zoo. The link to the...
Alex Whittaker
Jul 17, 20221 min read
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Definition of an Animal
Check out this video recently developed by Alex and Rochelle on the changing definition of animals at law.
Alex Whittaker
Apr 5, 20221 min read
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Tilly the Turtle
Here is a link to a story on channel 9 Today about animals and sensing of disasters in which Alex was invited to comment. Fascinating...
Alex Whittaker
Feb 23, 20221 min read
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Are you a breast cancer survivor and do you forget things?
Are you a breast cancer survivor and do you forget things? Our latest research suggests that 1 in 3 women who survive breast cancer have...
Alex Whittaker
Feb 14, 20221 min read
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3Rs over half a century later- how are we doing?
Russell and Burch's famous book which gave birth to the 3Rs concept that is so important and pervasive in animal-based research today,...
Alex Whittaker
Sep 11, 20211 min read
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Snake study provides impetus for legislative reform
Alex was recently part of a group of international researchers with an interest in reptile welfare that examined the evidence base around...
Alex Whittaker
May 31, 20211 min read
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First Aid for Pets
I’m doing something a little different for this blog- with a flashback to my days in veterinary practice. I recently attended a first aid...
Alex Whittaker
Mar 7, 20204 min read
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The role of animal law in the recent coronavirus emergence
Of course the headline news of this week has been the recent novel coronavirus emergence from the Chinese city of Wuhan. At the time of...
Alex Whittaker
Jan 28, 20205 min read
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Hello and welcome to our blog! These articles are really a series of musings, inspired by world news and activities at the time of writing. They will generally relate to our research areas or academic life in general, but we will not always be writing as experts in the field. We will make them as evidence-based as we can though, in the hope of reliably informing, and perhaps inspiring you to do further research on those topics of interest.
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