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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.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1: Animal welfare: the science and its words
- 2: What is animal welfare?
- 3: Why do animals want what is not good for them?
- 4: What animals want
- 5: Behavioural correlates of welfare
- 6: Natural behaviour
- 7: Physiological correlates of welfare
- 8: Animal welfare with and without consciousness
- 9: Conclusions: a universally agreed definition of welfare?
- 10: Consequences
About the author
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.
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.
Additional text
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.
