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Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans (2025)
Journal Article
Browning, H., Burn, C., Schnell, A., Crump, A., & Birch, J. (2025). Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans. Animal Welfare Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2025.25

There is increasing recognition that the welfare needs of cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans are important. Current commercial practices involving these animals include a range of potential threats to their welfare, such as conditions of far... Read More about Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans.

Reply to Hockenhull et al. Comment on "Ssuna et al. Animal Welfare Guidelines for International Development Organisations in the Global South. Animals 2024, 14, 2012" (2024)
Journal Article
Ssuna, P., Siegmund, K., & Crump, A. (2024). Reply to Hockenhull et al. Comment on "Ssuna et al. Animal Welfare Guidelines for International Development Organisations in the Global South. Animals 2024, 14, 2012". Animals, 14(23), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14233447

Article Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees (2024)
Journal Article
Gibbons, M., Pasquini, E., Kowalewska, A., Read, E., Gibson, S., Crump, A., Solvi, C., Versace, E., & Chittka, L. (2024). Article Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees. iScience, 27(8), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110440

It has been widely stated that insects do not show self-protective behavior toward noxiously-stimulated body parts, but this claim has never been empirically tested. Here, we tested whether an insect species displays a type of self-protective behavio... Read More about Article Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees.

Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects' welfare? (2023)
Journal Article
Crump, A., Gibbons, M., Barrett, M., Birch, J., & Chittka, L. (2023). Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects' welfare?. PLoS Biology, 21(6), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002138

Recent evidence suggests that at least some insect species might plausibly feel pain. These findings should prompt researchers to think about the welfare implications of insect experiments.

Short-Term Microplastic Exposure Impairs Cognition in Hermit Crabs (2023)
Journal Article
Crump, A., Aiken, C., Cunningham, E., & Arnott, G. (2023). Short-Term Microplastic Exposure Impairs Cognition in Hermit Crabs. Animals, 13(6), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13061055

We tested whether acute microplastic exposure impacts information gathering and processing (cognition) in hermit crabs (Pagurus bernhardus). For five days, we kept 51 hermit crabs in tanks containing either polyethylene microspheres (n = 27) or no pl... Read More about Short-Term Microplastic Exposure Impairs Cognition in Hermit Crabs.

Invertebrate sentience and sustainable seafood (2022)
Journal Article
Crump, A., Browning, H., Schnell, A. K., Burn, C., & Birch, J. (2022). Invertebrate sentience and sustainable seafood. Nature Food, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00632-6

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters are probably sentient, yet their welfare needs are poorly protected in the food system. Upholding animal welfare in the seafood industry presents challenges and more research is needed to address humane capture, housing... Read More about Invertebrate sentience and sustainable seafood.

Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence. Animal Sentience 32(1) (2022)
Journal Article
Crump, A., Browning, H., Schnell, A., Burn, C., & Birch, J. (2022). Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence. Animal Sentience 32(1). Animal Sentience, 32, Article 407. https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1691

We outline a framework for evaluating scientific evidence of sentience, focusing on pain experience. It includes eight neural and cognitive-behavioural criteria, with confidence levels for each criterion reflecting the reliability and quality of the... Read More about Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence. Animal Sentience 32(1).