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Domestic animal behaviour and welfare / D.M. Broom, A.F. Fraser.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, c2007.Edition: 4th editionDescription: ix, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781845932879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1845932870 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781845932886 (ebook)
  • 1845932889 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 636 22 BRO
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CONTENTS

Introduction, concepts and methods
1. Introduction, concepts
2. Describing, recording and measuring behaviour

Fundamental processes
3. Experience, learning and behaviour development
4. Motivation
5. Evolution, optimality
6. Welfare assessment

Organisation of behaviour
7. Behaviour towards predators and social attackers
8. Feeding
9. Body care
10. Locomotion, space occupied
11. Exploration
12. Spacing behaviour
13. Rest and sleep

Social and reproductive behaviour
14. General social behaviour
15. Human-domestic animal interactions
16. Seasonal and reproductive behaviour
17. Sexual behaviour

Early and parental behaviour
18. Foetal and parturient behaviour
19. Maternal and neonatal behaviour
20. Juvenile and play behaviour

Welfare topics
21. Handling, transport and humane control of domestic animals
22. Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease
23. Abnormal behaviour 1: stereotypies
24. Abnormal behaviour 2: self-directed and environment-directed
25. Abnormal behaviour 3: addressed to another animal
26. Abnormal behaviour 4: failures of function
27. Abnormal behaviour 5: anomalous reactivity

Welfare of various animals
28. Welfare of cattle
29. Welfare of pigs
30. Welfare of poultry
31. Welfare of farmed and pet fish
32. Welfare of animals kept for fur production
33. Welfare of horses
34. Welfare of farmed and pet rabbits
35. Welfare of dogs
36. Welfare of cats

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-411) and indexes.

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