Domestic animal behaviour and welfare /

• Main Authors: Broom, Donald M., (Author), Fraser, Andrew F., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Edition: 4th edition.
• Subjects: Domestic animals > Behavior.; Pets > Behavior.; Animal welfare.; Animals, Domestic.; Behavior, Animal.; Animal Welfare.; Veterinary Medicine > methods.; Fur-bearing Animals, (New March 2000); Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Behaviour.; Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Aquaculture (Animals); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Pets and Companion Animals.; Abnormal behaviour.; Animal behaviour.; Aquatic animals.; Aquatic organisms.; Attitudes.; Behaviour.; Domestic animals.; Furbearing animals.; Livestock.; Parental behaviour.; Poultry.; Reproductive behaviour.; Social behaviour.
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This book contains chapters on the behaviour and welfare of domestic animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, furbearing animals, fishes, turkeys, ducks, geese and other livestock. The 36 chapters are divided into 6 main sections that discuss concepts and methods of measuring behaviour, organization...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and concepts
• Describing, recording and measuring behaviour
• Experience, learning and behaviour development
• Motivation
• Evolution and optimality
• Welfare assessment
• Behaviour towards predators and social attackers
• Feeding
• Body care
• Locomotion and space occupied
• Exploration
• Spacing behaviour
• Rest and sleep
• General social behaviour
• Human-domestic animal interactions
• Seasonal and reproductive behaviour
• Sexual behaviour
• Fetal and parturient behaviour
• Maternal and neonatal behaviour
• Juvenile and play behaviour
• Handling, transport and humane control of domestic animals
• Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease
• Abnormal behaviour 1 : stereotypes
• Abnormal behaviour 2 : self-directed and environment-directed
• Abnormal behaviour 3 : addressed to another animal
• Abnormal behaviour 4 : failure of function
• Abnormal behaviour 5 : anomalous reactivity
• The welfare of cattle
• The welfare of pigs
• The welfare of poultry
• The welfare of farmed and pet fish
• The welfare of animals kept for fur production
• The welfare of horses and other equids
• The welfare of farmed and pet rabbits
• The welfare of dogs
• The welfare of cats.