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Un Support For Children, Animals, And Healthy Development, Andrew N. Rowan
Un Support For Children, Animals, And Healthy Development, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
The UN urges Nations around the world to protect children from exposure to the abuse and killing of animals.
Monkey Business, Andrew N. Rowan
Monkey Business, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
Laboratory primate supply is a continuing challenge for the biomedical research establishment.
Managing The Real Rat Race, Andrew N. Rowan
Managing The Real Rat Race, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
Rats have lived alongside humans for centuries despite energetic efforts to eliminate them from homes and offices.
"History Of The Animal Welfare Movement In Madras-Chennai", Andrew Rowan
"History Of The Animal Welfare Movement In Madras-Chennai", Andrew Rowan
Tales of WellBeing
Animal welfare in India enjoys considerable public support. Prashanth Krishna’s book details how this support was translated into government policy.
The Asian Elephant: Training And Control (Part 2), Bjarne Clausen, Taweepoke Angkawanish
The Asian Elephant: Training And Control (Part 2), Bjarne Clausen, Taweepoke Angkawanish
Tales of WellBeing
The authors describe the challenges in ensuring that elephants are trained so that human caretakers can safely work with them.
Exploring And Debating Sentience – Of Fish And Plants, Andrew N. Rowan
Exploring And Debating Sentience – Of Fish And Plants, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
Are fish and plants sentient? This articles explains where to explore the issues and arguments.
Do You Suffer Guilt Over Owning A Pet?, Harold Herzog
Do You Suffer Guilt Over Owning A Pet?, Harold Herzog
Herzog - Companion Animal Issues
While pet-owner guilt is common, it has only recently been studied. Many dog owners, for example, felt guilty when they returned to the office after the pandemic. Two new studies reported pet owner guilt resembles guilt experienced by parents of young children. Pet-related guilt is associated with depression, anxiety, and the conflicting demands of work and pet care.
In Pursuit Of A Silver Bullet For Pet Population Control: A Chemical Sterilant For Dogs And Cats, Andrew Rowan
In Pursuit Of A Silver Bullet For Pet Population Control: A Chemical Sterilant For Dogs And Cats, Andrew Rowan
Tales of WellBeing
Recent research has produced a chemical sterilant for cats that is effective and safe. Now, it must be approved for use by the regulatory agencies.
"Animal Welfare In World Religion" By Joyce D'Silva, Andrew Rowan
"Animal Welfare In World Religion" By Joyce D'Silva, Andrew Rowan
Tales of WellBeing
The major world faiths eloquently state how animals should be humanely treated but are largely silent on modern animal welfare challenges.
The Asian Elephant And Its Interaction With People And The Environment, Andrew Rowan
The Asian Elephant And Its Interaction With People And The Environment, Andrew Rowan
Tales of WellBeing
Is the Asian Elephant an example of a self-domesticated species, and if so, how should the species be managed?
Multiple Ways To Implement And Infer Sentience, Nicolas Rouleau, Michael Levin
Multiple Ways To Implement And Infer Sentience, Nicolas Rouleau, Michael Levin
Animal Sentience
Segundo-Ortin & Calvo’s (S&C’s) thorough review of “plant neurobiology” presents evidence supporting the possibility of plant sentience. They make a compelling case that plants anticipate, assess risk, cooperate, mimic, and pursue goals, as do their animal counterparts. S&C point out that there is a double standard: behavioural patterns associated with subjective experiences in humans are considered valid for inferring cognition in non-human animals but not in diverse other systems including plants. We argue that cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates. We offer some context from the basal cognition literature and …
Plant Sentience: Not Now, Maybe Later?, Helen Tiffin
Plant Sentience: Not Now, Maybe Later?, Helen Tiffin
Animal Sentience
Segundo-Ortin’s target article provides compelling evidence for physiological and behavioral complexity in plants, bringing us closer to a recognition of some kind of plant cognition – but it does not as yet offer firm grounds for inferring sentience (feeling) in plants, The recent history of the scientific demonstration and recognition of animalsentience in invertebrates, for example, does not entirely rule out the possibility that further research might provide support for plant sentience. Should this ever turn out to be the case, the ethical problems raised are not insurmountable, and would not threaten the now proven case for animal sentience
Crazier Hypotheses: Panpsychism, José E. Burgos, Giselle M. Castañeda
Crazier Hypotheses: Panpsychism, José E. Burgos, Giselle M. Castañeda
Animal Sentience
Abstract: Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (S&C) invite readers to consider seriously the hypothesis that plants have phenomenal consciousness or sentience. Their case is based on behavioral evidence to support their hypothesis. While the hypothesis seems crazy to many, there is a crazier hypothesis – panpsychism – according to which everything is sentient. We discuss panpsychism to raise a number of philosophical questions about S&C’s hypothesis.
We Love Animals. Why Do We Torture Them?, Lewis Bollard
We Love Animals. Why Do We Torture Them?, Lewis Bollard
General – Farm Animal Issues
This article explores the paradox of human love for animals versus widespread animal cruelty, especially in factory farming, and discusses psychological, cultural, legal, and advocacy perspectives.
Do Pets Really Save $23 Billion A Year In Health Care Costs?, Harold Herzog
Do Pets Really Save $23 Billion A Year In Health Care Costs?, Harold Herzog
Herzog - Companion Animals and Health
A new pet industry report claims pet-ownership saves Americans $23 billion a year in medical costs. Unfortunately, this claim is not supported by most research on human-pet interactions. For example, there is little evidence that pet owners make fewer doctor visits or are less likely to be obese.
Greyfriars Bobby, Kathleen Rowan
Greyfriars Bobby, Kathleen Rowan
Tales of WellBeing
Bobby, a small terrier in Edinburgh, is another example of canine post mortem devotion to a human companion.
Animal Communication And Sentience, Catia Correia-Caeiro, Katja Liebal
Animal Communication And Sentience, Catia Correia-Caeiro, Katja Liebal
Animal Sentience
Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (S&C) argue for sentience in plants on the basis of several studies of what they describe as "cognitive abilities" in plants. As other commentaries (e.g., Brooks Pribac, 2023; Damasio & Damasio, 2023; ten Cate, 2023) have pointed out, however, there is some misuse of several concepts, and a lack of evidence for sentience. We try to clarify three questions in S&C’s discussion: (1) How is communication defined and conceptualised in animal research? (2) Is plant communication comparable to animal communication? (3) Is communication (or the process we see in plants) a good basis for inferring sentience in …
Limits To Sentience, Donald M. Broom
Limits To Sentience, Donald M. Broom
Animal Sentience
There are many parallels between cellular function in animals and plants. Plants can have complex interactions with their environments. But they lack a central nervous system, which is a prerequisite for sentience (the capacity to feel). In my view the suggestion that plants are sentient is not only empirically incorrect but potentially harmful to the efforts to protect the welfare of sentient beings.
A Swift Kick In The Pandemics: Identifying Spillover Dynamics, Andrew N. Rowan
A Swift Kick In The Pandemics: Identifying Spillover Dynamics, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
The spillover of viruses from wild animals to cause human disease is a complex ecological process. A recent paper connects the dots.
Where’S The Beef? Climate Change And Animal Product Consumption, Andrew N. Rowan
Where’S The Beef? Climate Change And Animal Product Consumption, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
The production of animal products for human consumption places unsustainable demands on a world coping with expanding human populations.
Laboratory Primate Supply: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'Est La Même Chose, Andrew N. Rowan
Laboratory Primate Supply: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'Est La Même Chose, Andrew N. Rowan
WellBeing News
The use of laboratory primates in laboratories continues to prompt questioning and debate amid disruptions in supply.
Dissociation Between Conscious And Unconscious Processes As A Criterion For Sentience, Ivan Ivanchei, Nicolas Coucke, Axel Cleeremans
Dissociation Between Conscious And Unconscious Processes As A Criterion For Sentience, Ivan Ivanchei, Nicolas Coucke, Axel Cleeremans
Animal Sentience
Based on the literature on human consciousness, we suggest that to demonstrate sentience in a system, one needs to demonstrate both conscious and unconscious processing in the system. Major theories of consciousness require the existence of both conscious and unconscious processes. Contrasting effects of conscious and unconscious processes have been successfully used in human studies and have begun being applied in animal sentience research as well.
Plant Sentience: Getting To The Roots Of The Problem, Krzysztof Dolega, Savannah Siekierski, Axel Cleeremans
Plant Sentience: Getting To The Roots Of The Problem, Krzysztof Dolega, Savannah Siekierski, Axel Cleeremans
Animal Sentience
Segundo-Ortin’s (2023) target article invites us to consider the possibility that plants can experience subjectively felt states. We discuss this speculation on the basis of the functional neurobiology of consciousness. We suggest that demonstrating plant sentience would require that we identify not only behaviors analogous to those exhibited by sentient creatures, but also the functional analogues of the mechanisms causing such behaviors. The lack of clear evidence for any kind of integration between self-states, self-movement, environmental states, memory, or affective communication within plants suggests that plant sentience remains an admittedly fascinating, but ultimately merely provocative speculation.
Associative Learning: Unmet Criterion For Plant Sentience, Luigi Baciadonna, Catherine Macri, Martin Giurfa
Associative Learning: Unmet Criterion For Plant Sentience, Luigi Baciadonna, Catherine Macri, Martin Giurfa
Animal Sentience
In a thought-provoking target article, Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (S&C) discuss the possibility that plants are sentient, focusing on a series of capacities normally attributed only to human and nonhuman animals. S&C propose learning as a marker for sentience. We review studies reporting associative learning in plants and find that they either lack essential controls or fail to produce replicable results. The capacity to learn has not yet been demonstrated in plants, so it cannot be used to support the hypothesis that plants are sentient. Further studies are needed. But agnosticism about sentience should not deter us from investigating unexpected new …
Plant Sentience: Time Scale Matters, Alessio Plebe
Plant Sentience: Time Scale Matters, Alessio Plebe
Animal Sentience
Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (2023) have made a valuable effort in directing the discussion about plant sentience toward a strict scientific path. However, scientific endeavors must reconcile with common sense beliefs. Although nowadays people tend to accept the idea of animal sentience, this is not easily extended to plants. One reason is the difference in time scale in which phenomena occur in plants and animals; but this still does not preclude the possibility , in principle, of plant sentience in a form difficult for us to imagine.
Complex Floral Behavior Of An Angiosperm Family, Tilo Henning, Moritz Mittelbach
Complex Floral Behavior Of An Angiosperm Family, Tilo Henning, Moritz Mittelbach
Animal Sentience
Segundo-Ortin & Calvo provide a comprehensive overview of the many aspects of plant behavior examined to date. In our view, multiple lines of evidence make it difficult to deny plant sentience. We add further evidence to support the conclusion that plants are sentient organisms. As in animals, the behavior of plants can be seen and studied as an evolutionary trait, subject to and a consequence of increasing complexity in the interactions of plants with their environment. Our example is the evolution of floral behavior in Loasaceae, where complex patterns of stamen movement have co-evolved in interaction with specialized pollinators.
Disentangling Sentience From Developmental Plasticity, Jonathan Birch
Disentangling Sentience From Developmental Plasticity, Jonathan Birch
Animal Sentience
Plants, like animals, display remarkable developmental plasticity, inviting the metaphorical use of terms like “decision” and “choice”. In the animal case, this is not taken to be evidence of sentience, because sentience is a complex product of development, not something that guides it. We should apply the same standards when evaluating the evidence in plants. It is hard to overstate the contrast with the case of invertebrates such as octopuses, where pain markers that were originally developed for use in mammals have been clearly demonstrated and plausible neural substrates for sentience have been identified.
Life Of Willie B. - Public Policy & Psychological Well-Being - Part 3, Terry Maple
Life Of Willie B. - Public Policy & Psychological Well-Being - Part 3, Terry Maple
Tales of WellBeing
This tale is the last in a three-part series about Willie B., Atlanta’s iconic ape and one of the most famous gorillas in the world.
The Elephant In The Garden, Ila France Porcher
The Elephant In The Garden, Ila France Porcher
Animal Sentience
The other commentators on Chapman & Huffman (2018) have pointed out in different ways that despite our biological nature, there is a widespread tendency for humans to believe that we are not only superior to animals, but that we are not animals at all. Alongside our denial of animal sentience and cognition, this has resulted in the denial of our own instinctive natures. It is this denial that is our error, for it is only by understanding our true natural heritage that we can begin to change the runaway path we are on.
A Big Supreme Court Win For Farm Animals, Lewis Bollard
A Big Supreme Court Win For Farm Animals, Lewis Bollard
General – Farm Animal Issues
The article reports on the May 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding California’s Proposition 12, a landmark farm animal welfare law, with implications for state and national animal protection efforts.