-: Introduction Part I: Issues 1: Animal Ethics 2: Understanding Animal Welfare Part II: Problems 3: Environmental Challenge and Animal Agency 4: Hunger and Thirst 5: Pain 6: Fear and Other Negative Emotions 7: Frustration and Boredom in Impoverished Environments Part III: Assessment 8: Health and Disease 9: Behaviour 10: Physiology 11: Preference and Motivation Research 12: Practical Strategies to Assess (and Improve) Welfare Part IV: Solutions 13: Physical Conditions 14: Social Conditions 15: Human Contact 16: Genetic Selection Part V: Implementation 17: Economics 18: Regulation, Enforcement and Incentives 19: International Issues
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(BSc Zoology, PhD Animal Behaviour) is Chief Scientific Adviser
with The World Society for the Protection of Animals, based in
London, UK. At the Poultry Research Centre and the University of
Edinburgh, UK, he carried out research for 20 years on behaviour
and welfare of farm animals, before a period with The Humane
Society of the United States in Washington, DC. His most recent
book is Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals
(co-editor, 2008). Dr Appleby is a member of the Farm Animal
Welfare Council (Farm Animal Welfare Committee from April 2011) and
a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth and the Scottish
Agricultural College. Anna Olsson (I. A. S. Olsson) is Researcher
and Group Leader at i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in
Health, University of Porto since 2004. She has a background in
animal science and holds a PhD in ethology from the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on
behaviour and welfare of domestic (laboratory, farm and companion)
animals and ethics of (animal) research and technology. She has
established and coordinates training in laboratory animal science
for researchers at i3S (FELASA accredited course). At the
University of Porto, she has developed the ethics module for three
PhD programs (PDN, GABBA, MCBiology) and is one of the founders of
the interdisciplinary art-science module Biolaboratório.
Anna Olsson chairs the institutional animal welfare and ethics
review body since 2010. She is Trustee for Universities Federation
of Animal Welfare / Humane Slaughter Association (since 2016) and
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss 3Rs
Competence Centre (since 2018). She is Editorial board member for
the journal Laboratory Animals (since 2004) and academic editor for
PLOS ONE (since 2016). She is the co-editor of two textbooks Animal
ethics in animal research (Cambridge University Press) and Animal
Welfare (CABI International). Francisco Galindo is a Professor in
the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM). He obtained a degree in Veterinary
Medicine from the same University (1990) and later a PhD in Animal
Behaviour and Welfare (Cambridge, UK, 1996). In 1995 he was
appointed as Head of the Department of Ethology at UNAM and since
then started teaching Animal Behaviour and Welfare to undergraduate
and graduate students. He has supervised several graduate thesis on
areas related to Applied Ethology, Animal Welfare, Sustainability
and Conservation. He has been Coordinator of the Animal Welfare
Committee of the National Animal Health Council in Mexico, as well
as Programme Coordinator for the Latin American office of the
International Fund for Animal Welfare. Through this work he
contributed to the elaboration of Animal Welfare Legislation in
Mexico and in other Latin American countries. He is Coordinator of
the WOAH Collaborating Centre on Animal Welfare and Sustainable
Livestock Systems. He has a strong interest in the integration of
animal welfare and sustainability, and has published more than 80
scientific papers on those topics. He is co-editor of Etología
Aplicada, one of the first publications of the topic in Spanish,
and of Animal Welfare 3rd edition. (BSc Zoology, PhD Animal
Behaviour) is Chief Scientific Adviser with The World Society for
the Protection of Animals, based in London, UK. At the Poultry
Research Centre and the University of Edinburgh, UK, he carried out
research for 20 years on behaviour and welfare of farm animals,
before a period with The Humane Society of the United States in
Washington, DC. His most recent book is Long Distance Transport and
Welfare of Farm Animals (co-editor, 2008). Dr Appleby is a member
of the Farm Animal Welfare Council (Farm Animal Welfare Committee
from April 2011) and a Visiting Professor at the University of
Plymouth and the Scottish Agricultural College. Dr Andy Butterworth
MRCVS is Reader in Animal Science and Policy in the Clinical
Veterinary School, University of Bristol, UK. Andy teaches and
carries out research in the areas of animal disease and production,
animal welfare and legislation, behavioural biology, and animal
welfare assessment in both farm and wild animals. He is a member of
the European Food Standards Agency Scientific Panel on Animal
health and Welfare, and chairs the EEER (Ethics, Economics,
Education and Regulation) of the Farm Animal Welfare committee in
the UK. He is editor in Chief of Elsevier's journal Veterinary and
Animal Science, he lectures widely and publishes in books, and the
academic and trade press, with over 200 publications to date.
Michael Cockram is a Professor at the Atlantic Veterinary College,
University of Prince Edward Island, Canada where he is the Chair in
Animal Welfare, at the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre. Dr
Cockram has a veterinary and academic background in animal welfare.
He obtained his veterinary degree and PhD in the UK and then worked
at the University of Edinburgh. He studies the welfare implications
of the management of animals, and the relationships between health,
physiology, behaviour and animal science. He has published research
on the transport, lairage and handling of livestock and poultry,
and other animal welfare issues. Much of this research was
conducted within commercial slaughter plants. He has worked with
industry groups to apply the results of scientific research to
commercial situations and has participated in the development of
several animal welfare codes of practice. His previous book
chapters have been on the welfare implications of health and
disease, sheep transport and the effects of handling,
transportation, lairage and slaughter on cattle welfare and beef
quality. Dr Cockram serves as the Welfare and Behaviour Section
Editor for animal: an international journal of animal bioscience,
he organised the 2018 International Congress of the International
Society for Applied Ethology and is currently the Chair of the
Large Animal Subcommittee of the Canadian Veterinary Medical
Association, Animal Welfare Committee. Dr Rick D'Eath is Reader in
Animal Behaviour and Welfare at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). As
an applied ethologist working on farm animals, his main research
interests involve understanding how the farmed environment can
modify and sometimes frustrate an animals' motivated behaviours
often leading to animal welfare problems. Rick primarily works on
pigs and poultry, with a particular focus on questions around
feeding and hunger, and interactions between animals which are
negative for their welfare, including aggression, tail-biting and
mounting. Francisco Galindo is a Professor in the Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM). He obtained a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the same
University (1990) and later a PhD in Animal Behaviour and Welfare
(Cambridge, UK, 1996). In 1995 he was appointed as Head of the
Department of Ethology at UNAM and since then started teaching
Animal Behaviour and Welfare to undergraduate and graduate
students. He has supervised several graduate thesis on areas
related to Applied Ethology, Animal Welfare, Sustainability and
Conservation. He has been Coordinator of the Animal Welfare
Committee of the National Animal Health Council in Mexico, as well
as Programme Coordinator for the Latin American office of the
International Fund for Animal Welfare. Through this work he
contributed to the elaboration of Animal Welfare Legislation in
Mexico and in other Latin American countries. He is Coordinator of
the WOAH Collaborating Centre on Animal Welfare and Sustainable
Livestock Systems. He has a strong interest in the integration of
animal welfare and sustainability, and has published more than 80
scientific papers on those topics. He is co-editor of Etología
Aplicada, one of the first publications of the topic in Spanish,
and of Animal Welfare 3rd edition. Stella Maria Huertas Canén is a
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master in Animal Health at the
University of the República Oriental del Uruguay. From the
beginning of her academic life she specialized in the study of meat
quality and later in her career on the welfare of production
animals in a country with one of the highest beef meat production
and export rates in the world.
She is the coordinator of the Animal Welfare Program of the
Veterinary Faculty of University of the República Oriental del
Uruguay and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics within the same
University.
Since 2009 Stella is the coordinator for Uruguay of the OIE
Collaborating Center in Animal Welfare and Livestock Production
Systems for the Americas, a consortium made of institutions from
Chile-Uruguay-Mexico. Stella Maris is also a member of the
integrated ad hoc group of the OIE.
Stella Maris has been a pioneer in issues related to the welfare of
production animals in her country and in the region, and has led
important research projects that have contributed to creating
knowledge, generating human resources, spreading good practices to
all stakeholders, including farmers, farm staff, transporters and
personnel of the meat industry.
Stella has authored multiple publications related to silvopastoral
systems, animal welfare and productivity. is a veterinary surgeon,
now retired, who worked from 1966 to 2004 at the Poultry Research
Centre and the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh. His research was on
poultry behaviour and welfare, focussing especially on specific
appetites, laying behaviour, egg shell quality, feather pecking and
housing systems. He headed the Ethology Department from 1988 to
1997 and was Institute Named Veterinary Surgeon and Chair of the
Ethics Committee from 1993 to 2004. He was also a Tutor in the Open
University on Biology, Brain and Behaviour and Lecturer on
Edinburgh University's MSc course in Applied Animal Behaviour and
Welfare. He was Editor of British Poultry Science from 1985 to 2010
and remains on the Editorial Board. Georgia Mason is a behavioural
biologist a the University of Guelph, Canada, who studies how
animals adapt (or fail to adapt) to captive housing conditions,
especially conditions that meet their physiological needs but are
too small or monotonous to allow natural behaviour. She is also
interested in the validation of animal welfare indicators. (BA
Biology, DPhil Ethology and Neurobiology) is a Professor of Animal
Science and the Director of the Center for Animal Welfare at the
University of California, Davis. She conducts research on the
behaviour and welfare of poultry and small laboratory animals, with
a particular emphasis on management and environmental enrichment.
She serves on numerous national and international committees and
boards that address issues related to farm and laboratory animal
welfare, and teaches courses on animal welfare and animal ethics.
Michael Mendl is a Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare at
Bristol Veterinary School. His research interests are in the area
of animal behaviour and welfare, particularly the links between
affective and cognitive processes, and the ways in which attention,
memory and decision-making both influence and are influenced by
affective state. He is also interested in the evolution and
function of affective states, developing new measures of animal
emotion and welfare that can be used under field conditions
(including automated / machine learning), and understanding more
about animal cognition, emotion, personality, and social behaviour
with a view to identifying and minimising welfare problems for
captive animals. Ruth C. Newberry is a Professor of Ethology in the
Faculty of Biosciences at the Norwegian University of Life
Sciences. Her early years were spent on a farm near Ottawa, which
had a resident cat colony. Before the cats were neutered, she saw
first-hand the communal nursing of Tinkerbell and her adult
daughter, and the comings and goings of the resident tomcat. As a
zoology student at the University of Edinburgh, she was encouraged
by Jane Goodall's writings to pursue the study of animal behaviour,
leading to her PhD research in the Edinburgh Pig Park observing
communal nursing in pig nests. After several years investigating
chicken behaviour at the Agassiz Research Station in British
Columbia, she journeyed south to join Washington State University's
colleges of veterinary medicine and agriculture. There, she
conducted studies on a wide range of animals including cats. Having
finally habituated to cowboy hats in her classroom, the northern
lights beckoned once more, this time to Norway. Here, since 2013,
her research has focused on methods of environmental enrichment
that foster harmonious social development and positive welfare.
Ruth is a Past-President and Honorary Fellow of the International
Society for Applied Ethology, and a member of several scientific
advisory committees on animal welfare. A confirmed cat person
meeting the personality traits described in Chapter 12, she has
shared her home with a succession of beloved cats, Annapurra
Katman, Cinnamon Daintree, Siena Kitkatla to name a few, whose
unique personalities have provided inspiration during the writing
of this book. Birte Nielsen is an applied ethologist currently
working as Assistant Scientific Director at UFAW (Universities
Federation for Animal Welfare) and their sister-charity HSA (Humane
Slaughter Association). She has previously worked at the National
Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in France and Aarhus
University, Denmark. Her research has spanned the science of
olfaction, studying the behavioural responses of rats to different
smells, and feeding behaviour in ruminants. Birte has in-depth
experience in experimental behaviour science on rats, growing pigs,
dairy cows, broiler chickens and broiler breeders, and has been
actively involved in work on horses, sows, laying hens and even
ostriches. Anna Olsson (I. A. S. Olsson) is Researcher and Group
Leader at i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health,
University of Porto since 2004. She has a background in animal
science and holds a PhD in ethology from the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on behaviour and
welfare of domestic (laboratory, farm and companion) animals and
ethics of (animal) research and technology. She has established and
coordinates training in laboratory animal science for researchers
at i3S (FELASA accredited course). At the University of Porto, she
has developed the ethics module for three PhD programs (PDN, GABBA,
MCBiology) and is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary
art-science module Biolaboratório.
Anna Olsson chairs the institutional animal welfare and ethics
review body since 2010. She is Trustee for Universities Federation
of Animal Welfare / Humane Slaughter Association (since 2016) and
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss 3Rs
Competence Centre (since 2018). She is Editorial board member for
the journal Laboratory Animals (since 2004) and academic editor for
PLOS ONE (since 2016). She is the co-editor of two textbooks Animal
ethics in animal research (Cambridge University Press) and Animal
Welfare (CABI International). Dr Sally Sherwen is the Director of
Wildlife Conservation and Science at Zoos Victoria (the
Conservation Organisation charged with the operation of Melbourne
Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary in
Australia). Sally leads a dynamic team of scientists and
specialists that develop and deliver strategic programs in
conservation, animal welfare, education and environmental
sustainability. Sally has a PhD in Animal Welfare Science and in
previous roles has established an evidence-based research program
in animal behaviour and welfare science, developed and implemented
an institutional welfare assessment tool to advance welfare
standards and designed and ran collaborative training courses with
several NGOs for industry professionals and community groups.
Francoise is a Senior Researcher at SRUC, and her main research
interest is the development of scientific approaches for the study
of animals as whole sentient beings (i.e. as subjects rather than
objects), bringing insights from philosophy of mind and social
psychology and anthropology into the study of animal emotion. In
collaboration with colleagues from SRUC and other institutes,
Francoise has developed and validated a methodology for the study
of animal expressivity (body language) and subjective experience,
generally referred to as 'Qualitative Behaviour Assessment' (QBA).
Her research focuses on the application of this method as a
practical tool for welfare assessment and management in farm, zoo,
and companion animals. Research interests associated with this work
are animal boredom and environmental enrichment.
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