Michael Mendl

I graduated in 1982 with a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and then stayed on to study for a PhD on mother-offspring relationships and behavioural development supervised by Prof Pat Bateson FRS at the Cambridge Zoology Department's Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour. I completed my PhD in 1986 and was then awarded a Royal Society European Research Fellowship to continue work on behavioural development and individual differences in house mice at Groningen University in the Netherlands. I then returned to Cambridge University and took a postdoc position at the Vet School where I moved into the fields of applied behaviour and animal welfare and was introduced to the intelligence, grace and equipment destroying capabilities of the domestic pig. In 1993, I took up a position as a behavioural scientist at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh, continuing to work on pig behaviour and welfare, and then moved to Bristol University Vet School in 1997 where I am now Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare. and have previously been Head of the Bristol Animal Welfare & Behaviour Group, and Deputy Head of School (Research). At Bristol, my research interests have been in the study of cognition, emotion, development, individuality and social behaviour in domestic animals (pigs, dogs, rats, sheep), with a view to using this information to improve animal welfare, and in more applied animal welfare issues including the relationship between housing and husbandry procedures and the health and welfare of farm and laboratory animals, and understanding abnormal behaviour such as tail-biting in pigs.

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Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Graduação em natural science

1979 - 1982

University Of Cambridge

Pós-doutorado

1982 - 1986

Pós-Doutorado. , University of Cambridge, CAM, Inglaterra.

Áreas de atuação

Grande área: Outros.

Produções bibliográficas

SVENDSEN, PERNILLE M. ; MALMKVIST, JENS ; HALEKOH, ULRICH ; MENDL, MICHAEL . Responses of mink to auditory stimuli: Prerequisites for applying the `cognitive bias- approach. Behavioural Processes (Print) , v. 91, p. 291-297, 2012.
KILBRIDE, A.L. ; MENDL, M. ; STATHAM, P. ; HELD, S. ; HARRIS, M. ; COOPER, S. ; GREEN, L.E. . A cohort study of preweaning piglet mortality and farrowing accommodation on 112 commercial pig farms in England. Preventive Veterinary Medicine (Print) , v. 104, p. 281-291, 2012.
TAYLOR, NINA R. ; PARKER, RICHARD M.A. ; MENDL, MICHAEL ; EDWARDS, SANDRA A. ; MAIN, DAVID C.J. . Prevalence of risk factors for tail biting on commercial farms and intervention strategies. The Veterinary Journal (London, England. 1997) , v. 194, p. 77-83, 2012.
MENDL, MICHAEL ; PAUL, ELIZABETH S. ; CHITTKA, LARS . Animal Behaviour: Emotion in Invertebrates?. Current Biology , v. 21, p. R463-R465, 2011.
BURMAN, OLIVER ; MCGOWAN, RAGEN ; MENDL, MICHAEL ; NORLING, YEZICA ; PAUL, ELIZABETH ; REHN, THERESE ; KEELING, LINDA . Using judgement bias to measure positive affective state in dogs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Print) , v. 132, p. 160-168, 2011.
TRIMMER, PETE C. ; HOUSTON, ALASDAIR I. ; MARSHALL, JAMES A. R. ; MENDL, MIKE T. ; PAUL, ELIZABETH S. ; MCNAMARA, JOHN M. . Decision-making under uncertainty: biases and Bayesians. Animal Cognition , v. 14, p. 465-476, 2011.
STATHAM, POPPY ; GREEN, LAURA ; MENDL, MICHAEL . A longitudinal study of the effects of providing straw at different stages of life on tail-biting and other behaviour in commercially housed pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Print) , v. 134, p. 100-108, 2011.
OOSTINDJER, MARIJE ; BOLHUIS, J. ELIZABETH ; MENDL, MIKE ; HELD, SUZANNE ; VAN DEN BRAND, HENRY ; KEMP, BAS . Learning how to eat like a pig: effectiveness of mechanisms for vertical social learning in piglets. Animal Behaviour , v. 82, p. 503-511, 2011.
PAUL, ELIZABETH S. ; CUTHILL, INNES ; KUROSO, GO ; NORTON, VICKI ; WOODGATE, JOE ; MENDL, MICHAEL . Mood and the speed of decisions about anticipated resources and hazards. Evolution and Human Behavior , v. 32, p. 21-28, 2011.
HILD, SOPHIE ; CLARK, CORINNA C.A. ; DWYER, CATHERINE M. ; MURRELL, JOANNA C. ; MENDL, MIKE ; ZANELLA, ADROALDO J. . Ewes are more attentive to their offspring experiencing pain but not stress. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Print) , v. 132, p. 114-120, 2011.
MELOTTI, LUCA ; OOSTINDJER, MARIJE ; BOLHUIS, J. ELIZABETH ; HELD, SUZANNE ; MENDL, MICHAEL . Coping personality type and environmental enrichment affect aggression at weaning in pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Print) , v. 133, p. 144-153, 2011.
CLARK, CORINNA ; MENDL, MIKE ; JAMIESON, JENNIFER ; ARNONE, ASHLEIGH ; WATERMAN-PEARSON, AVRIL ; MURRELL, JOANNA . Do psychological and physiological stressors alter the acute pain response to castration and tail docking in lambs?. Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia (Print) , v. 38, p. 134-145, 2011.
TURNER, SIMON P. ; FARNWORTH, MARK J. ; MENDL, MIKE ; ERHARD, HANS W. ; LAWRENCE, ALISTAIR B. . Evidence for residence-induced enhancement of aggressiveness in the non-territorial pig. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Print) , v. 130, p. 10-19, 2011.
MENDL, MICHAEL ; BROOKS, JULIE ; BASSE, CHRISTINE ; BURMAN, OLIVER ; PAUL, ELIZABETH ; BLACKWELL, EMILY ; CASEY, RACHEL . Dogs showing separation-related behaviour exhibit a `pessimistic- cognitive bias. Current Biology , v. 20, p. R839-R840, 2010.
MENDL, M. ; BURMAN, O. H. P. ; PAUL, E. S. . An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , v. 277, p. 2895-2904, 2010.
MENDL, MICHAEL ; HELD, SUZANNE ; BYRNE, RICHARD W. . Pig cognition. Current Biology , v. 20, p. R796-R798, 2010.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

University of Bristol. , Langford House, Langford, North Somerset BS40 5DU, 405 - Bristol, - Inglaterra, Telefone: (44) 11792894