Animal play and animal welfare

By S. Held, M. Špinka. 2011

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Subfields: Genetics, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living” (2016, background): “The brain processing that underlies the generation survival-critical negative affects and that which underlies the generation of situation-related positive affects interact, such that when animals experience significant levels of the former this discomfort inhibits their motivation to utilise existi”
A review of behavioural methods to study emotion and mood in pigs, Sus scrofa (2014, background): “Furthermore, play is contagious behaviour, thus pleasure associated with play may be transferred between individuals (Held and Špinka, 2011).”
Animal welfare with and without consciousness (2017, background): “…of these ways is that it allows us to give ‘valence’ (Mendl et al., 2010) to a host of other suggested measures of welfare, such as how much they play (Held & Spinka, 2011), the rate of telomere attrition (Bateson, 2016), the predictability and structure of their behaviour sequences (Asher et…”
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation (2013, background): “Adult humans typically play less than children. general, play is an indicator of psychological and physical well-being (Held & Spinka, 2011).”
Social dimension of emotions and its implication for animal welfare (2012, background): “matory behaviour, successful problem solving or positive social interactions (e.g., Dudink et al., 2006; Boissy et al., 2007; Yeates and Main, 2008; Manteuffel et al., 2009; Held and Špinka, 2011; Špinka and Wemelsfelder, 2011).”
The influence of neonatal environment on piglet play behaviour and post-weaning social and cognitive development (2015, unknown): “boredom (Held and Špinka, 2011; Dybkjaer, 1992).”