Contact the Animals & Veterinary Team

Use this page to find the right route for a question about content in the CAB Direct Animals & Veterinary section, shown as Animals in the site navigation. The section covers four areas: pet health, dairy and beef, animal behaviour, and entomology. Its planned coverage includes preventive veterinary checks, dog longevity research, pet obesity and kidney disease in cats; dairy cow welfare, dairy breeds, beef and poultry systems, sheep vaccination programmes, and heat stress and antimicrobial use in livestock; animal play, cognition and wild horse behaviour; and bees and wasps, varroa and other mites, insect communication and insect decline.

The section hub is at /animals/, and background on the wider project is on the About CAB Direct page. Different questions are handled by different pages, so choosing the right one from the start keeps a correction request separate from a general question about sources or authorship.

General information, not veterinary advice

Animals & Veterinary articles provide general information. They are not veterinary advice for an individual animal, and the routes on this page cannot provide a diagnosis, a treatment plan or advice on medicines for a specific animal, herd, flock or colony.

If an animal is ill, injured or in distress, contact a veterinary surgeon. Questions about a medicine prescribed or supplied for your animal are best put to the veterinary surgeon, pharmacist or other qualified person who prescribed or supplied it. In the UK and many other countries, suspicion of a notifiable disease in animals must be reported to the government veterinary authority; this site is not a reporting channel.

Choose the right contact route

The table matches common questions about Animals & Veterinary articles to the page that deals with them.

Corrections to a specific article

If something in a published Animals & Veterinary article looks wrong, use the corrections page. Examples of problems that can arise in this subject area include a figure reported for one species, breed or production system being applied to another; a pest or parasite that is misidentified, such as varroa confused with other mites or a wasp mistaken for a bee; a finding from laboratory animals presented as if it came from pets or farm animals; the authorisation status of a vaccine or antimicrobial that is out of date or refers to a different country; and a lifespan or prevalence figure given without the population and period it describes.

Reported issues are assessed against traceable sources, and not every report leads to a change. Where an article is corrected, the correction is dated and remains visible.

What to include in a report

• The address of the article and the heading of the section concerned.
• The exact sentence, figure or table cell you believe is wrong.
• What you think the correct information is, and why.
• A source that supports the correction, such as the original study, official disease surveillance data or a regulator's product information.
• For veterinary medicines and vaccines, the country and date the information applies to, since authorisations differ between countries.

Details of your own animal's health history are not needed, because the corrections route deals with published content rather than individual cases.

Editorial standards and process

Questions about how articles are prepared belong with the editorial policy. This includes questions about topic selection, preferred types of source, how welfare and production topics are presented, where general information ends and advice for an individual animal would begin, and updates to published articles. Claims and figures in the section are checked against traceable sources, and the editorial policy sets out the rules in full.

Evidence, sources and uncertainty

Evidence about animals and insects comes in many forms. A controlled trial in one breed, an observational study built on owner-reported data, a herd-level survey, a laboratory experiment and a long-term insect monitoring dataset each answer different questions, and results from one species or production system do not automatically transfer to another. Behaviour and cognition studies often rely on small samples, and insect decline datasets can change method, location or taxonomic scope over time.

For questions about how this kind of evidence is weighed, see how we rate evidence. If you think a particular claim in an article goes further than its source supports, treat it as a correction and name the claim on the corrections page.

Authors and topic coverage

Author profiles are listed at /authors/. All five members of the Animals & Veterinary team hold the role of Author and joined in September 2026. Their listed qualifications are in animal science, animal welfare, livestock production, zoology, animal behaviour, animal biology, veterinary epidemiology, biological sciences and entomology.

Who covers what

If your question concerns a particular topic, the list below shows which author covers it. Each name links to the author's profile.

• Imogen Farrant (BSc Animal Science, MSc Animal Welfare): companion animal health, preventive care, diet and welfare.
• Rhys Penwarden (BSc Animal Science, MSc Livestock Production): dairy and beef production, herd health, feeding, fertility and livestock welfare.
• Lena Okonjo (BSc Zoology, MSc Animal Behaviour): animal behaviour, insects and entomology, pollinators and pest insects.
• Gethin Morrow (BSc Animal Biology, MSc Veterinary Epidemiology): sheep vaccination programmes and clostridial diseases, antimicrobials in livestock, heat stress in livestock, poultry and pig systems, and preventive herd health.
• Rowan Siu (BSc Biological Sciences, MSc Entomology): bees and wasps, varroa and other mites, insect communication through pheromones, sound and vibration, insect decline datasets and pollinators.

General questions about an author or their articles can be sent through the main contacts page at /contacts/, and each author's profile is linked from /authors/.

CAB Direct and CABI databases

CABI's own history page records that CAB Direct launched in 2003 as CABI's platform for CAB Abstracts (see CABI: our history). CABI's help pages explain how to search the CABI Digital Library, in particular its main databases, CAB Abstracts and Global Health (see CABI Digital Library help).

Questions about searching or accessing those databases are best answered through CABI's own help resources. The routes on this page cover articles published in the Animals & Veterinary section, and nothing here should be read as a statement that CABI writes, reviews or publishes them.

General contact and related pages

For a general enquiry about the section, or when the right route is unclear, use the main contacts page. This page does not list a separate email address, telephone number or postal address for the section, and it does not set a response time. The following pages give further context:

• Animals & Veterinary section: /animals/
• About CAB Direct: /about/
• Editorial policy: /editorial-policy/
• How we rate evidence: /how-we-rate-evidence/
• Corrections: /corrections/
• Authors: /authors/
• Contacts: /contacts/