Overview
What is animal welfare? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It defines animal welfare as health and animals having what they want, a definition that can be easily understood by scientists and non-scientists alike, expresses in simple words what underlies many existing definitions, and shows what evidence we need to collect to improve animal welfare in practice. Above all, it puts the animal's own point of view at the heart of an assessment of its welfare. Defining welfare as health and what animals want allows us to distinguish between measures that are simply what an animal does when it is alert, aroused, or active and those measures that genuinely allow us to distinguish between situations the animals themselves see as positive or negative. Sentience is for many people the essence of what is meant by welfare, but studying consciousness is notoriously difficult, particularly in non-human species. These difficulties are discussed in the context of our current--and as yet incomplete--knowledge of human and animal consciousness. Finally, the book highlights some key ideas in the relationship between animal welfare science and animal ethics and shows how closely the well-being of humans is linked to that of other animals.
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Author: Marian Stamp Dawkins ,
Esther Wane
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200177776
Publication Date: 13 April 2021
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Marian Stamp Dawkins is professor of animal behavior in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and has a long record of working successfully with poultry producers to improve animal health and welfare. She is the author of numerous research papers, and her books include Through Our Eyes Only?: The Search for Animal Consciousness, Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-Being, and with Aubrey Manning, An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. She now leads a team that that is developing an on-farm system for assessing welfare by automatically processing CCTV images of group behavior. Esther Wane is a British actor and voice-over artist. After a career in finance, she fulfilled a childhood dream of going to drama school in London; her life as an actor began at forty. She lives with her family and collection of books in Hertfordshire, just outside London.
