Understanding animal welfare

By D. Fraser. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2008

834 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Part I: Animal Welfare in Context. Introduction. 1. Animals and Moral Concern. 2. Animals in the Human Mind. 3. A Good Life for Animals. 4. A Science of Animal Welfare?. Part II: Studying Animal Welfare. Introduction. 5. Disease, Injury and Production. 6. "Stress". 7. Abnormal Behaviour. 8. Affective States. 9. "Natural" Living. 10. Preferences and Motivation. Part III: Drawing Conclusions about Animal Welfare . Introduction. 11. How Do The Different Measures Relate To Each Other?. 12. Selecting and Combining Criteria of Animal Welfare. 13. Animal Welfare, Values and Mandated Science. Coda. References. Index

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Small Animals

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In Ecology

1. Karin A. Laurijs
2. L. Webb
3. I. Reimert
4. P. Kenyon
5. S. Maloney
6. Rui F. Oliveira
7. E. Briefer
8. L. Galhardo

In Genetics

1. Donagh P. Berry
2. P. Kenyon
3. S. Maloney
4. Rui F. Oliveira
5. N. Friggens
6. E. Briefer
7. L. Galhardo
8. D. Blache

In Small Animals

1. P. Kenyon
2. S. Maloney
3. Rui F. Oliveira
4. N. Friggens
5. E. Briefer
6. L. Galhardo
7. D. Blache
8. J. Roche

Citations in the corpus

• Review of sheep body condition score in relation to production characteristics (2014, methodology): “Like any other AW indicator, the use of BCS to define AW has limitations (Keeling et al. 2011).”
• Psychological Stress and Welfare in Fish (2009, background): “This is probably one of the reasons why dominant fish tend to have lower cortisol levels than subordinates (Earley et al., 2006) and may also be one of the cognitive contributes to the ‘winner and loser effect’ (Eriksen et al., 2005), where winners have a higher probability of winning a subsequent e”
• Invited review: Body condition score and its association with dairy cow productivity, health, and welfare. (2009, background): “There are many definitions, dimensions, and understandings of animal welfare (Duncan and Fraser, 1997; Nordenfelt, 2006; Fisher, 2009), but the most common reflect on how well an animal performs, what it feels, and that which is in keeping with the animal’s nature.”
• Competition Horses Housed in Single Stalls (II): Effects of Free Exercise on the Behavior in the Stable, the Behavior during Training, and the Degree of Stress (2012, background): “illness, behavior patterns (regarding locomotion, social interactions, ingestion, resting, etc) are supposed to be performed as closely as possible to an animal’s behavior under natural conditions [9].”
• Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment (2021, background): “Emotions and moods are affective experiences that vary in valence (pleasantness/unpleasantness) and arousal (high arousal/low arousal) (Scherer, 2005; Fraser, 2008).”