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9781405190008

Measuring Animal Welfare

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405190008

  • ISBN10:

    1405190000

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-08-31
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Author Biography

Georgia Mason is Canada Research Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph, Canada, where she teaches ethology and animal welfare assessment as well as running a research group. She has a broad background in various aspects of animal welfare, is widely published and regularly speaks at international conferences.

Mike Mendl is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the University of Bristol, UK, where he teaches animal behaviour and welfare and heads up a large research group. He has broad experience behavioural development, ethology and animal welfare, and is also a regular speaker at international conferences.

Table of Contents

1. Animal Welfare Assessment – the Basics.

Part I: Adaptive Behavioural Responses.

2. Preference: Acquiring Desired Resources.

3. Avoidance Responses: Startle and Aversion.

4. Advanced Cognitive Approaches: Self-Report and Cognitive Bias.

5. Whimpers and Wagging Tails: Signals That Reflect Positive or Negative Stimuli.

6. Behavioural Responses to Sickness and Pain.

Part II: Adaptive Physiological Responses: the Reallocation of Energy and Attention.

7. Physiology That Supports Behaviour and Cognition I – the Sympathetic and Parasympethic Systems.

8. Physiology That Supports Behaviour and Cognition II– the HPA Axis.

Part III: Long-Term Changes in Function: Reallocation of Resources, and Maladaptive / Malfunctional Responses.

9. Altered Reproductive Function.

10. Somatic and CNS Impairments in Functioning.

11. Stereotypic and Other Abnormal Behaviour Patterns.

12. Immuno-Modulation, Morbidity and Mortality.

Part IV: Putting It All Together….

13. Putting It All Together!

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