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Naturalness and Animal Welfare


Naturalness and Animal Welfare - PMC - PubMed Central

Naturalness is considered important for animals, and is one criterion for assessing how we care for them. However, it is a vague and ambiguous term.

Naturalness and Animal Welfare - PubMed

Naturalness is considered important for animals, and is one criterion for assessing how we care for them. However, it is a vague and ...

Natural Behaviour | The Science of Animal Welfare - Oxford Academic

Natural behaviour is important because it gives us a baseline for what animals might want to do but it cannot define good welfare on its own. It has to be ...

“Naturalness” and Its Relation to Animal Welfare from an Ethological ...

We argue that an animal that can perform the behaviour it wants and can reach the goals it likes can behave according to what is “in-its-nature” even under ...

Naturalness: beyond animal welfare - PhilArchive

There is an ongoing debate in animal ethics on the meaning and scope of animal welfare. In certain broader views leading a natural life through the development.

The Natural Behavior Debate: Two Conceptions of Animal Welfare

The criterion of natural behavior is one of the most controversial proposed conditions for animal welfare. It is the idea that the performance ...

Naturalness: Beyond Animal Welfare

NATURALNESS: BEYOND ANIMAL WELFARE. (Accepted in revised form August 15, 2001). ABSTRACT. There is an ongoing debate in animal ethics on the meaning and scope ...

The Natural Behavior Debate: Two Conceptions of Animal Welfare

PDF | The performance of natural behavior is commonly used as a criterion in the determination of animal welfare. This is still true, despite many.

Beyond Natural Behavior In Animal Welfare Science - Faunalytics

The paper argues that it is time we look beyond natural behaviors and focus more on the 'wants' and 'needs' of modern-day farmed animals to assess their ...

The Natural Behavior Debate: Two Conceptions of Animal Welfare

Those advocating natural behavior typically take a “teleological” view of welfare, in which naturalness is fundamental to welfare, while ...

When can a natural behaviour become harmful in captivity?

Some abnormal behaviours may have no obvious or immediate impact on the animals well-being, while others can become acutely harmful, very quickly. Finally, some ...

(PDF) “Naturalness” and Its Relation to Animal Welfare from an ...

Here we view naturalness from the point of view of proximate behavioural control. The mechanisms of behaviour control have evolved in order ...

“Naturalness” and Its Relation to Animal Welfare from an Ethological ...

Here we view naturalness from the point of view of proximate behavioural control. The mechanisms of behaviour control have evolved in order that animals ...

Farm animal welfare: Beyond “natural” behavior | Science

Natural behavior is behavior shown by animals living where their ancestors evolved or at least in man-made environments that allow them similar freedom of ...

Assessing the Importance of Natural Behavior for Animal Welfare

Animals do not only have so-called physiological needs such as the need for food, water, and thermal comfort. They also need to exercise certain natural ...

How important is natural behaviour in animal farming systems?

It is often assumed and demanded that for a good welfare, farm animals should be given “the freedom to express their natural behaviour”.

Natural Behaviour Is Not Enough: Farm Animal Welfare Needs ...

Niko Tinbergens' Four Questions framework is used to show why there is no necessary link between natural behaviour and welfare.

'Pleasures', 'Pains' and Animal Welfare: Toward a Natural History of ...

In hedonic theories of motivation, 'motivational affective states' (MASs) are typically seen as adaptations which motivate certain types of behaviour, ...

Understanding animal welfare | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Others emphasize the ability of animals to live reasonably natural lives by carrying out natural behaviour and having natural elements in their ...

“Naturalness” and Its Relation to Animal Welfare from an Ethological ...

Here we view naturalness from the point of view of proximate behavioural control. The mechanisms of behaviour control have evolved in order that animals ...