The biology of animal stress : basic principles and implications for animal welfare /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Animal welfare.; Stress (Physiology); Animal Behaviour.; Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Animal Welfare.; Animals.; Animal behaviour.; Behaviour.; Biology.; Stress.; Electronic books.
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This book brings together a range of scientific perspectives from biomedical research on stress and welfare, and assesses new approaches to conceptualizing and alleviating stress. While much of the focus in on conventional farm animals, there is also consideration of fishes, laboratory animals and z...

Table of Contents:

• Biological Response to Stress : Implications for Animal Welfare / G.P. Moberg
• Some Issues in the Interpretation of Behavioural Responses to Stress / J. Rushen
• Neuroendocrine Responses to Stress / R.L. Matteri, J.A. Carroll and C.J. Dyer
• The Metabolic Consequences of Stress : Targets for Stress and Priorities of Nutrient Use / T.H. Elsasser, K.C. Klasing, N. Filipov and F. Thompson
• Immune System Response to Stress / F. Blecha
• Hands-on and Hands-off Measurement of Stress / C.J. Cook, D.J. Mellor, P.J. Harris, J.R. Ingram and L.R. Matthews
• Accumulation and Long-term Effects of Stress in Fish / C.B. Schreck
• Chronic Intermittent Stress : A Model for the Study of Long-term Stressors / J. Ladewig
• Quantifying Some Responses to Pain as a Stressor / D.J. Mellor, C.J. Cook and K.J. Stafford
• Multiple Factors Controlling Behaviour : Implications for Stress and Welfare / F. Toates
• Chronic Social Stress : Studies in Non-human Primates / S.P. Mendoza, J.P. Capitanio and W.A. Mason
• Consequences of Stress During Development / D.C. Lay Jr
• Early Developmental Influences of Experience on Behaviour, Temperament and Stress / W.A. Mason
• Genetic Selection to Reduce Stress in Animals / T.G. Pottinger
• Human-Animal Interactions and Animal Stress / P.H. Hemsworth and J.L. Barnett
• Alleviating Stress in Zoo Animals with Environmental Enrichment / K. Carlstead and D. Shepherdson
• Understanding the Role of Stress in Animal Welfare : Practical Considerations / T.L. Wolfle.