Michael Mendl

At Bristol — United Kingdom

Veterinary · Health Sciences

62h-index15.2kcitations450works2.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies(237), Human-Animal Interaction Studies(82), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior(64), Animal Nutrition and Physiology(56), Primate Behavior and Ecology(44)

Publications450 total

Shared feelings? Affective states and transfer in bumblebees
Learning & Behavior·2026Open Access
Watching makes it worse: dairy calves are averse to watching another calf feed while hungry
Animal Behaviour·2025Open Access
Calves fed more milk prioritise play over feeding in a hole-board test
2025Open Access
From welfare indicator to welfare contributor: the role of play in building flexibility and resilience in captive animals
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025Open Access
Author response for "From Welfare Indicator to Welfare Contributor: The Role of Play in Building Flexibility and Resilience in Captive Animals"
2025
Author response for "From Welfare Indicator to Welfare Contributor: The Role of Play in Building Flexibility and Resilience in Captive Animals"
2025
Inactive but awake behaviour as indicating a depression-like state in mice: aetiological factors and association with adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Royal Society Open Science·2025Open Access
Stage 2 Registered Report: Refinement of tickling protocols to improve positive animal welfare in laboratory rats
F1000Research·2025Open Access
Author response for "Inactive but awake behaviour as indicating a depression-like state in mice: aetiological factors and association with adult hippocampal neurogenesis"
2025
Through Human Eyes: Owner Insights into the Social Relationships of Pet Rats
Animals·2025Open Access
Stage 2 Registered Report: Refinement of tickling protocols to improve positive animal welfare in laboratory rats
F1000Research·2025Open Access
Pain and pessimism affect calves' play behaviours post-disbudding
Discover Animals·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Tackling challenges in the study of animal emotions: a review
Cognition & Emotion·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Social information about others’ affective states in a human-altered world
2025Open Access
Assessing Affective States in Animals
CABI eBooks·2025
Building the whole-herd machine vision monitoring platform at the John Oldacre Centre for Dairy Welfare & Sustainability Research
Animal - science proceedings·2025
Male mice prefer to live on their own
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Quantitative sensory testing in dogs with spontaneous osteoarthritis
Frontiers in Pain Research·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
An exploratory study of associations between judgement bias, demographic and behavioural characteristics, and detection task performance in medical detection dogs
PLoS ONE·2025Open Access
The development and use of a cage-topper to enhance rat welfare
Bristol Research (University of Bristol)·2025Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Elizabeth S. Paul(17), Oliver H. P. Burman(7), Randall M. Parker(5), A.B. Lawrence(4), Suzanne Held(4), Françoise Wemelsfelder(3), Laura Green(3), Donald M. Broom(3), Julie Feaver(3), Patrick Bateson(3), Emma J. Harding(2), Nina R. Taylor(2), David Main(2), S.A. Edwards(2), J.N. Marchant(2), A.R. Rudd(2), Poppy Statham(2), Malgorzata Lagisz(2), Josefina Zidar(2), Shinichi Nakagawa(2)