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Evolution And Animal Welfare, Marian Stamp Dawkins
Evolution And Animal Welfare, Marian Stamp Dawkins
Assessment of Animal Welfare Collection
Animal welfare is a topic often thought to reside outside mainstream biology. The complexity of the methods used to assess welfare (such as health, physiology, immunological state, and behavior) require an understanding of a wide range of biological phenomena. Furthermore, the "welfare" of an animal provides a framework in which a diversity of its responses can be understood as fitness-enhancing mechanisms. Different methods for assessing animal welfare are discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of an animal's own choices and reinforcement mechanisms. No part of biology is as yet able to explain consciousness, but by confronting the possibility that …
Why It Is Important To Understand Animal Behavior, Joy Mench
Why It Is Important To Understand Animal Behavior, Joy Mench
Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism Collection
Although people have long been fascinated by the behavior of animals, the formal discipline of animal behavior--ethology--is actually relatively new, dating to the work of Konrad Lorenz in Austria in the 1930s. Application of ethological principles and methods to the study of animal welfare is an even newer endeavor, of course, and one that has generated a great deal of stimulating discussion and controversy during its short history. In this paper, I provide an overview of the development of behavioral approaches to the study of animal welfare. I then discuss some reasons that behaviors are important to animals and describe …
Animals, Ethics And Geography, William S. Lynn
Animals, Ethics And Geography, William S. Lynn
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
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A Demanding Task: Using Economic Techniques To Assess Animal Priorities. A Reply To Mason Et Al., C. M. Sherwin, C. J. Nicol
A Demanding Task: Using Economic Techniques To Assess Animal Priorities. A Reply To Mason Et Al., C. M. Sherwin, C. J. Nicol
Economics and Animal Welfare Collection
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Contested Moralities: Animals And Moral Value In The Dear/Symanski Debate, William S. Lynn
Contested Moralities: Animals And Moral Value In The Dear/Symanski Debate, William S. Lynn
Human and Animal Bonding Collection
Geography is experiencing a ‘moral turn’ in its research interests and practices. There is also a flourishing interest in animal geographies that intersects this turn, and is concurrent with wider scholarly efforts to reincorporate animals and nature into our ethical and social theories. This article intervenes in a dispute between Michael Dear and Richard Symanski. The dispute is over the culling of wild horses in Australia, and I intervene to explore how geography deepens our moral understanding of the animal/human dialectic. I begin by situating the inquiry into ethics and animals in geography. Next, I provide a synopsis of Dear …