Assessing the Importance of Natural Behavior for Animal Welfare

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Formalised review of environmental enrichment for pigs in relation to political decision making (2006, background): “These behaviours classify as natural behaviours as the animals tend to perform these behaviours under natural conditions, presumably because they are pleasurable and promote biological functioning ( Bracke and Hopster, 2004, 2005 ).”
Animal welfare with and without consciousness (2017, background): “…Hurst (1996) saw welfare as related to not just the health of an individual but also to its fitness or reproductive success while for many people an important component of welfare is the extent to which the animal is able to show ‘natural behaviour (Kiley-Worthington, 1989; Bracke & Hopster, 2006).”
Animal welfare and efficient farming: is conflict inevitable? (2017, background): “For example, the ability to perform ‘natural behaviour’ (Bracke and Hopster 2006) or have positive interactions with humans (Hemsworth et al. 2009) can be included if it can be demonstrated that these improve animal health or provide something the animals want.”