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The science of animal welfare : understanding what animals want / Marian S Dawkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawkins, Marian S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal psychology.
- Animal welfare.
- Animal health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Animal Welfare: The Science and Its Words
- 2 What Is Animal Welfare?
- The complexity problem
- The consciousness problem
- A basic definition of animal welfare
- How 'health and what animals want' relates to other definitions
- Conclusions
- 3 Why Do Animals Want What Is Not Good for Them?
- Time lags and arms races
- Balancing health and what animals want
- Why animals generally do want what is good for them
- Health and what animals want
- 4 What Animals Want
- One-off choice tests
- Repeated choice tests
- Working for what is wanted: operant conditioning
- Choice tests for the wider world: bigger questions and bigger choices
- Asking how much animals want something
- 'Informed' choice when repeated choices are difficult or impossible
- Indirect measures of choice-'out of sight'
- Cognitive or judgement bias
- 5 Behavioural Correlates of Welfare
- What are 'correlates of welfare'?
- Correlating behaviour with health and what animals want
- Establishing 'valence'
- Anticipation of reward or punishment
- Behavioural diversity as a correlate of welfare
- Behavioural predictability: stereotypies and other patterns in time
- Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA)
- Specific behavioural correlates of positive and negative anticipation
- Play
- Exploration, grooming and sleep
- Behavioural correlates and the comparative method
- 6 Natural Behaviour
- Why natural behaviour?
- The welfare of animals in nature
- Do animals want to do natural (or normal) behaviour?
- Why natural behaviour is important
- 7 Physiological Correlates of Welfare
- Physiological symptoms of 'stress'
- Does stress correlate with physical health?.
- Does stress correlate with what animals want?
- 'Pleasure' hormones
- Heart rate variability
- Skin, eye and comb temperature
- Miscellaneous measures: shells and eye white
- 8 Animal Welfare with and without Consciousness
- Animal welfare defined with consciousness
- Human consciousness and animal consciousness
- Can theories of human consciousness tell us about animal consciousness?
- Animal welfare defined without consciousness
- 9 Conclusions: A Universally Agreed Definition of Animal Welfare?
- Test one: does it unite existing definitions?
- Test two: does it indicate which 'measures' of welfare are valid?
- Test three: does it specify what evidence needs to be collected to demonstrate an improvement in welfare?
- Test four: is it understandable by non-scientists, including politicians and law-makers?
- 10 Consequences
- Animal welfare and ethics
- Animal welfare and animal rights
- Ethics and sentience
- Speciesism
- Animal welfare and conservation ethics
- Animal welfare and human welfare
- The road to improving animal welfare
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258876-1
- 0-19-188368-9
- OCLC:
- 1237863861
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