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The Science of Animal Welfare

Understanding What Animals Want

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The Science of Animal Welfare

By: Marian Stamp Dawkins
Narrated by: Esther Wane
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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.

©2021 Marian Stamp Dawkins (P)2021 Tantor
Animals Biological Sciences Environment Evolution Evolution & Genetics Outdoors & Nature Pets & Animal Care Science Animal Behavior

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Mariam Stamp Dawkins makes the theme of Animal Welfare accessible to everyone and is expertly narrated. This book delves in some issues that some times hold back our ideas about this topic and gives simple, yet effective answers to them. A great recommendation for everyone interested in animals and want to improve their lives.

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An excellent book for all but the youngest readers and people who hate life and thinking.

An excellent book for all but the youngest readers

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