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The Science of Animal Welfare - Understanding What Animals Want (Paperback)
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The Science of Animal Welfare - Understanding What Animals Want (Paperback)
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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. It defines
animal welfare as 'health and animals having what they want', a
definition that can be easily understood by scientists and
non-scientists alike, expresses in simple words what underlies many
existing definitions, and shows what evidence we need to collect to
improve animal welfare in practice. Above all, it puts the animal's
own point of view at the heart of an assessment of its welfare.
But, can we really understand what animals want? A consistent theme
running through the book is that not only is it possible to
establish what animals want, but that this information is vital in
helping us to make sense of the long and often confusing list of
welfare measures that are now in use such as 'stress' and 'feel
good hormones', expressive sounds and gestures, natural behaviour,
cognitive bias, and stereotypies. Defining welfare as 'health and
what animals want' allows us to distinguish between measures that
are simply what an animal does when it is alert, aroused, or active
and those measures that genuinely allow us to distinguish between
situations the animals themselves see as positive or negative.
Sentience (conscious feelings of pleasure, pain, and suffering) is
for many people the essence of what is meant by welfare, but
studying consciousness is notoriously difficult, particularly in
non-human species. These difficulties are discussed in the context
of our current - and as yet incomplete - knowledge of human and
animal consciousness. Finally, the book highlights some key ideas
in the relationship between animal welfare science and animal
ethics and shows how closely the well-being of humans is linked to
that of other animals. The Science of Animal Welfare is an ideal
companion for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in
animal behaviour and welfare, as well as for professional
researchers, practitioners and animal welfare consultants. At the
same time, it is easily understandable to non-scientists and anyone
without prior knowledge but with an interest in animals and the
rapidly evolving science of animal welfare.
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