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Putting the animal back together: the teleonome makes its public debut

Putting the animal back together: the teleonome makes its public debut

by | Jul 28, 2026 | , | 0 |

Forty years after the world’s first Professor of Animal Welfare was appointed, why does the most visible animal suffering persist? Opening the Animal Welfare Chapter at ANZCVS Science Week on the Gold Coast, Cristina Wilkins argued it isn’t a knowledge gap — and presented the teleonome, and the six As that operationalise it, for the first time to a live audience

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“Hiding in plain sight”: researcher tells veterinarians that bit and noseband pressures routinely exceed what equine tissues can tolerate

“Hiding in plain sight”: researcher tells veterinarians that bit and noseband pressures routinely exceed what equine tissues can tolerate

by | Jul 28, 2026 | , | 0 |

Every piece of equipment on a horse’s head is designed to apply pressure. Presenting to the ANZCVS Animal Welfare Chapter, Cristina Wilkins used a photographic dataset from elite competition to argue that curb bits and nosebands routinely exceed the biological limits of the tissues they act on — and block every attempt a horse makes to resolve them.

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