The Science of Animal Welfare :Understanding What Animals Want

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The Science of Animal Welfare

The Science of Animal Welfare :Understanding What Animals Want

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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9780198848998
ISBN10 0198848994
Number Of Pages 160
Item Weight 304 g
Product Dimensions 175 x 250 x 10 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format paperback
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The book will be a helpful tool for students and instructors interested in animal welfare. It is accessible for undergraduate students yet sophisticated enough for advanced scholars. * Nicolas Delon, Metascience *

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Author's Bio

Marian Dawkins is Professor of Animal Behaviour in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, UK and has a long record of working successfully with poultry producers to improve animal health and welfare. She is the author of numerous research papers and her books include Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness (1993), Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare and Human Well-Being (2012) and with Aubrey Manning An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012). She now leads a team that that is developing an on-farm system for assessing welfare by automatically processing CCTV images of group behaviour.

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