Main description:

Completely updated and revised, and synthesizing the recent explosion in animal welfare literature, the sixth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a thorough overview of behaviour and welfare of companion and farm animals, including fish. The introductory section has been completely revised, with all following chapters updated, redesigned and improved to reflect our changing understanding. This edition includes: - New and revised chapters on climate change and sustainability, ethics, and philosophy to ensure that the book provides the latest information in a changing world; - New information on human interactions with other animal species, big data, modern technologies, brain function, emotions and behaviour; - Solutions and advice for common abnormal behaviours. Written by a world-leading expert and key opinion leader in animal behaviour and welfare, this text provides a highly accessible guide to the subject. It is an essential foundation for any veterinary, animal science, animal behaviour or welfare-focused undergraduate or graduate course.

Contents:

1: Introduction to Ideas and Measurement 1: One Biology, Ethics, Sentience and Sustainability 2: Behaviour and Welfare Concepts 3: Describing, Recording and Measuring Behaviour 2: Fundamental Topics 4: Learning, Cognition and Behaviour Development 5: Motivation 6: Evolution and Optimality 7: Welfare Assessment 3: Organization of Behaviour 8: Defence and Attack Behaviour 9: Finding and Acquiring Food 10: Body Care 11: Locomotion and Space Occupied 12: Exploration 13: Spacing Behaviour 14: Rest and Sleep 4: Reproductive and Social Behaviour 15: General Social Behaviour 16: Human-Domestic Animal Interactions 17: Seasonal and Reproductive Behaviour 18: Sexual Behaviour 5: Early and Parental Behaviour 19: Fetal and Parturient Behaviour 20: Maternal and Neonatal Behaviour 21: Juvenile and Play Behaviour 6: Welfare Topics 22: Handling, Transport and Humane Control of Domestic Animals 23: Stunning and Slaughter 24: Welfare and Behaviour in Relation to Disease 25: Abnormal Behaviour 1: Stereotypies 26: Abnormal Behaviour 2: Self-directed and Environment-directed 27: Abnormal Behaviour 3: Addressed to Another Individual 28: Abnormal Behaviour 4: Failure of Function 29: Abnormal Behaviour 5: Anomalous Reactivity 7: Welfare of Various Animals 30: Welfare of Cattle 31: Welfare of Sheep and Goats 32: Welfare of Pigs 33: Welfare of Poultry 34: Welfare of Farmed and Pet Fish 35: Welfare of Deer, Camelids and Ostriches 36: Welfare of Animals Kept for Fur Production 37: Welfare of Horses, Other Equids and Other Draught Animals 38: Welfare of Farmed and Pet Rabbits 39: Welfare of Dogs 40: Welfare of Cats 41: Welfare of Other Pet Animals 42: Welfare in a Moral World