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Stress and animal welfare / D.M. Broom and K.G. Johnson.

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Main Author: Broom, Donald M.
Other Authors: Johnson, K. G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1993.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Chapman and Hall animal behaviour series.
Subjects:
Stress (Physiology)
Animal welfare.
Animal Welfare.
Stress.
Table of Contents:
  • Approaching questions of stress and welfare
  • Range of use of the terms stress and welfare
  • Animal welfare and social change
  • Current debate about animal usage
  • Importance of beginning from basics
  • Challenge ahead
  • Systems regulating body and brain
  • Basic concept of homeostatic control
  • Inputs to control systems
  • Motivational state: stimulation in relation to learning
  • Outputs from decision centers
  • Control systems and needs
  • Types of control
  • Pain, fear and anxiety
  • Development of regulatory systems
  • Limits to adaptation
  • Limitations of timing and temporal aspects of stimulus modality
  • Limitations of intensity
  • Significance of different modes of stimulation
  • Concepts of tolerance and coping
  • Variations in patterns of adaptation
  • Other factors affecting adaptation
  • Stress and strain, welfare and suffering
  • Stress
  • Welfare
  • Assessing welfare: short-term responses
  • Behavioural measures
  • Physiological measures
  • Using indicators to evaluate welfare
  • Short-term welfare problems and concepts of stress.
  • (cont) Assessing welfare: long-term responses
  • Reduced reproductive success
  • Life expectancy
  • Weight changes
  • Cardiovascular and blood parameters
  • Adrenal axes
  • Measures of immune system function
  • Disease incidence measures
  • Opioids
  • Behavioural measures
  • Other consequences of frustration and lack of control
  • Lack of stimulation and overstimulation
  • Interrelationships among measures
  • Preference studies and welfare
  • Time and energy allocation in a rich environment
  • Experimental studies of animal preferences
  • Do preference studies tell us what is important for animals?
  • Ethical problems concerning welfare
  • Value systems
  • how humans impose on other animals and vice versa
  • Setting limits to assessed welfare
  • Unresolved difficulties
  • Solutions and conclusions
  • Purposes of studying stress and welfare
  • Practical approaches to assessing stress and welfare.

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