Environmental challenge and animal agency.

By F. Wemelsfelder. 2011

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Genetics, Small Animals, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d0fef454f4b66e746ca61dd41dc6f9b6669f890a

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In Genetics

1. D. Mellor
2. M. A. V. von Keyserlingk
3. L. Polsky
4. M. Špinka
5. B. Hine
6. I. Colditz

In Small Animals

1. D. Mellor
2. M. A. V. von Keyserlingk
3. L. Polsky
4. M. Špinka
5. B. Hine
6. A. McLean
7. I. Colditz

In Social Psychology

1. D. Mellor
2. M. A. V. von Keyserlingk
3. M. Špinka
4. B. Hine
5. L. Polsky
6. I. Colditz

Citations in the corpus

• The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human–Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare (2020, background): “Agency is apparent when animals engage in voluntary, self-generated and/or goal-directed behaviours [42,49,53].”
• 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).”
• Marine mammal cognition and captive care: A proposal for cognitive enrichment in zoos and aquariums (2013, unknown): “In contrast, captive animals tend to live in highly predictable and structured environments, and their cognitive skills may be challenged at a low or inappropriate level (Špinka and Wemelsfelder 2011).”
• Invited review: Effects of heat stress on dairy cattle welfare. (2017, background): “Research investigating an animal’s motivation for control and its desire for agency is a focal point in welfare research (Špinka and Wemelsfelder, 2011), as controlled effectiveness (the animal’s motivation to manage its environment; Franks and Higgins, 2012) has been documented in rats (Franks et a”
• Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living” (2016, background): “Agency is apparent when animals engage in voluntary, self-generated and goal-directed behaviours [88] and is linked to a general sense of being in control [89].”
• Resilience in farm animals: biology, management, breeding and implications for animal welfare (2016, background): “In contrast to using rewards to modify cognition and affect, exposing an animal to situations that provide stress inoculation and enable it to learn to control its environment has the potential to increase the animal’s agency (Wechsler and Lea 2007; Spinka and Wemelsfelder 2011).”