How animals communicate quality of life: the qualitative assessment of animal behaviour

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The contribution of qualitative behavioural assessment to appraisal of livestock welfare (2016, background): “…who developed the general concept and methodology, and did much of the initial validation with a network of European collaborators, testing inter-observer reliability and correlations with other measures of behaviour for a range of species (Wemelsfelder 1997, 2007; Wemelsfelder et al. 2000).”
Assessment of animal welfare through behavioural parameters in Iberian pigs in intensive and extensive conditions (2011, methodology): “The qualitative assessment of animal behaviour relies on the ability of observers to integrate perceived details of behaviour, posture, and context into descriptions of animal’s style of behaving using descriptors such as “relaxed”, “tense”, “frustrated” and “content” (Wemelsfelder, 2007).”
The Correlation of Qualitative Behavior Assessments with Welfare Quality® Protocol Outcomes in On-Farm Welfare Assessment of Dairy Cattle (2013, background): “Such terms specify not so much what an animal does physically, as how it expresses itself dynamically (Feaver et al., 1986), and as such have an emotional connotation that has been suggested to be directly relevant to its welfare (Wemelsfelder, 1997, 2007).”