Effects of predictability on the welfare of captive animals

By L. Bassett, H. Buchanan-Smith. 2007

356 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, Small Animals

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/35eb16601322ba5ca1293a98eb904b79549cc050

How researchers see this paper

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In Animal Science and Zoology

1. M. Dickens
2. R. Clubb
3. G. Mason
4. L. M. Romero
5. K. N. Morgan
6. A. Claxton
7. N. Latham
8. Chris T. Tromborg

In Genetics

1. G. Mason
2. R. Clubb
3. K. N. Morgan
4. Chris T. Tromborg
5. A. Claxton

In Small Animals

1. M. Dickens
2. R. Clubb
3. N. Latham
4. G. Mason
5. K. N. Morgan
6. Chris T. Tromborg
7. D. Delehanty
8. A. McLean

Citations in the corpus

• The potential of the human-animal relationship as an environmental enrichment for the welfare of zoo-housed animals. (2011, background): “In captivity, these events may be somewhat different to those experiences in the wild environment, but nevertheless significant to the point that they may cause an animal stress (Bassett and Buchanan-Smith, 2007).”
• The application of learning theory in horse training (2017, background): “…threshold is a critical area of study in equitation science and central to this are two major components of psychological stressors (Weiss, 1972; Bassett and Buchanan-Smith, 2007): predictability (in horse training classical conditioning provides cues that predict certain events) …”
• Sources of stress in captivity (2007, background): “Another aspect of captivity that may be stressful to animals is its predictability (see review in Bassett and Buchanan-Smith, 2007).”
• Stress: An inevitable component of animal translocation (2010, background): “Improving the predictability, such as the timing of the stressors involved with captivity will decrease the animals responsiveness to these stressors, thus improving their welfare (Bassett and Buchanan-Smith, 2007).”
• Why and how should we use environmental enrichment to tackle stereotypic behaviour (2007, background): “Furthermore, husbandry changes that decrease the predictability of food arrival may well diminish pre-feeding ARBs and yet also diminish welfare (cf. e.g. Bassett and Buchanan-Smith, 2007).”