Assessing Animal Welfare: A Guide to the Valid Use of Indicators of Affective States (UFAW Animal Welfare)
**Assessing Animal Welfare** provides a practical framework for evaluating animal welfare using scientifically validated indicators. Exploring the assessment of emotions, behaviour, and long-term wellbeing, it offers clear guidance on interpreting welfare measures and applying them effectively in practice and research.
Autor: Georgia J. Mason, Birte L. Nielsen, Michael T. Mendl
| Nakladatel | Wiley-Blackwell |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781394182190 |
| Vydání | 2026 |
| Vazba | brožovaná |
| Počet stran | 352 |
Table of Contents
1 Animal welfare and affective states
2 Measuring the unmeasurable: the construct validation of affective state indicators
3 Preference and avoidance tests
4 Vocal signals
5 Acute Glucocorticoid Responses
6 Body temperature and heart rate
7 Judgement biases
8 Play behaviour
9 Reactivity to rewards
10 Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and glucocorticoids-to-DHEA(S) ratio
11 Abnormal Repetitive Behaviours
12 Telomere length
13 Hippocampal structural plasticity
14 The importance of construct validation, and (more) tools for valid use of indicators – what have we learned and what is still missing?