Mrs Rutu Galea
Research Assistant – Animal Welfare
Melbourne Veterinary School
26 Scholarly works
1 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Research grants (other domestic)
Human-Animal Interactions During Pig Transport:examining Relationships Between Transport Driver Attitudes and Behaviour and Pig Behaviour to Inform the Development of ProHand Pig Transport
2025
Journal article
47. Is placentophagia a phenomenon in pigs?
DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2025.09.0482025
Journal article
87. Animal, time and place: non-genetic risk factors for tail biting in Australian pig production
DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2025.09.0882025
Journal article
Risk factors for smothering in three commercial free-range layer poultry farms, Australia 2019–2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2025.1065682024
Journal article
Early human contact and housing for pigs - part 1: responses to humans, novelty and isolation
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.1011642024
Journal article
Early human contact and housing for pigs - part 3: ability to cope with the environment
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.1011662024
Journal article
Early human contact and housing for pigs – part 2: resilience to routine husbandry practices
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101165
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2024
Journal article
Descriptive epidemiology of smothering in Australian commercial free-range layer hen farms
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.1060982023
Journal article
Review of the influence of farrowing and lactation housing and positive human contact on sow and piglet welfare
DOI: 10.3389/fanim.2023.12308302022
Journal article
The Animal-Human Interface in Farm Animal Production: Animal Fear, Stress, Reproduction and Welfare
DOI: 10.3390/ani120404872021
Journal article
59. Effects of housing system and human contact on fear in piglets
DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2021.09.144