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

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Main Author: Broom, Donald M.
Other Authors: Fraser, Andrew F.
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Domestic animals > Behavior.
Pets > Behavior.
Animal welfare.
Animals, Domestic.
Behavior, Animal.
Animal Welfare.
Veterinary Medicine > methods.
Physical Description:ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Describing, recording and measuring behaviour
  • Experience, learning and behaviour development
  • Motivation
  • Evolution and optimality
  • Welfare assessment
  • Behaviour towards predators and social attackers
  • Feeding
  • Body care
  • Locomotion and space occupied
  • Exploration
  • Spacing behaviour
  • Rest and sleep
  • General social behaviour
  • Human-domestic animal interactions
  • Seasonal and reproductive behaviour
  • Sexual behaviour
  • Foetal and parturient behaviour
  • Maternal and neonatal behaviour
  • Juvenile and play behaviour
  • Handling, transport and humane control of domestic animals
  • Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease
  • Abnormal behaviour 1 : stereotypes
  • Abnormal behaviour 2 : self-directed and environment-directed
  • Abnormal behaviour 3 : addressed to another animal
  • Abnormal behaviour 4 : failure of function
  • Abnormal behaviour 5 : anomalous reactivity
  • The welfare of cattle
  • The welfare of pigs
  • The welfare of poultry
  • The welfare of farmed and pet fish
  • The welfare of animals kept for fur production
  • The welfare of horses and other equids
  • The welfare of farmed and pet rabbits
  • The welfare of dogs
  • The welfare of cats.