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Inspiring systematic inclusion of individual animal states to enhance the quality of research

2026-01-23

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Studies on animals continue to attract criticism over data quality, reproducibility and generality of findings, yet one source of variation remains rarely addressed: differences in individuals’ affective states. In this paper, we suggest that evaluating affect should be considered standard good practice in ecological and behavioural research with wild animals, alongside familiar variables such as sex, age or domin...

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Literature Corpus work: e7b1f256-9f87-598e-99d9-e31b09be8a0f
DOI: 10.32942/x2d66p

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