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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2023

Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches,

Danielle Free, Sarah Wolfensohn

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Cockroaches as an Emerging Invertebrate Model in Bioscience Research:Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Danielle FreeMarwell Wildlife, Winchester SO21 1JH, UK.ORCID 0009-0007-3849-7496
Sarah WolfensohnSchool of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7AL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0985-3603

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The welfare of invertebrates under human care is of growing concern, particularly with the increasing interest in insect farming as an environmentally sustainable means of producing food. Additionally, individual welfare monitoring systems can be time-consuming and impractical for larger groups, particularly when individual animals are difficult to identify. It is, therefore, imperative to develop a validated system for monitoring terrestrial invertebrate welfare at a group level. The Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG) is an objective welfare-monitoring tool that has been approved for use with a wide range of species. This study modified the AWAG for large group-level welfare assessments and successfully trialled it on a terrestrial invertebrate species, a group of captive male

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Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG)cockroachgroup welfareinvertebratequality of lifesentiencewelfare

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PMID37958106
PMCPMC10647269

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