Broom and Fraser's domestic animal behaviour and welfare / written by Donald M. Broom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. One Biology, Ethics, Sentience and Sustainability -- 1.1. One Biology -- 1.2. Genes and Environment -- 1.3. Ethics -- 1.4. Attitudes to Domestic and Other Animals -- 1.5. Sentience and Animal Protection -- 1.6. Sustainability -- 1.7. Numbers of Domestic Animals -- 2. Behaviour and Welfare Concepts -- 2.1. Ethology and its Applications -- 2.2. Welfare Concepts -- 2.3. Welfare: Scientific Assessment -- 2.4. Behaviour and Animal Production -- 2.5. Behaviour and Pet Management -- 2.6. Behaviour and Veterinary Medicine -- 2.7. Questions about Behaviour -- 2.8. The Sensory Worlds of Domestic Animals -- 2.9. Pheromones -- 3. Describing, Recording and Measuring Behaviour -- 3.1. Levels of Description of Behaviour -- 3.2. Behaviour Measures During Veterinary Examination -- 3.3. Design of Experiments and Observation Procedures -- 3.4. Marking of Animals for Behaviour Studies -- 3.5. Sampling and Measuring -- 3.6. Recording Social Behaviour -- 3.7. Recording Aids -- 3.8. Field Studies -- 3.9. Test Situations -- 4. Learning, Cognition and Behaviour Development -- 4.1. Experience -- 4.2. Learning -- 4.3. Experimental Learning Studies -- 4.4. Cognition -- 4.5. Learning Ability of Domestic Animals -- 4.6. Behaviour Development: Requirements -- 4.7. Development of Domestic Chick Behaviour -- 4.8. Development in Each Functional System -- 5. Motivation -- 5.1. Motivation Concepts -- 5.2. Causal Factors -- 5.3. Motivational State -- 5.4. History of Motivation Ideas -- 5.5. Monitoring Motivation -- 5.6. Motivational Control Systems -- 5.7. Affect, Feelings, Emotions and Moods -- 5.8. Motivation, Emotion and Judgement Bias -- 5.9. Needs -- 5.10. Brain Structure and Mechanisms -- 5.11. Hormones that Affect Behaviour -- 6. Evolution and Optimality -- 6.1. Behaviour Evolution -- 6.2. Variation, Heritability and Selection -- 6.3. Ideas About Optimality and Efficiency -- 6.4. The Evolution of Social Behaviour -- 6.5. Domestication -- 7. Welfare Assessment -- 7.1. Factors Affecting Welfare -- 7.2. The Range of Measures of Welfare -- 7.3. Physiological Measures of Poor Welfare -- 7.4. Behavioural Measures -- 7.5. Measures of Pain -- 7.6. Measures of Other Negative Feelings -- 7.7. Disease, Injury, Movement and Growth Measures -- 7.8. Inhibited Behaviour and Behaviour Strategies -- 7.9. Direct Measures of Good Welfare -- 7.10. Magnitude of Good or Poor Welfare -- 7.11. Qualitative Behavioural Assessment -- 7.12. Studies of Preferences and Their Strength -- 7.13. Risk Assessment and Welfare Outcome Indicators -- 8. Defence and Attack Behaviour -- 8.1. Defence and Avoidance -- 8.2. Agonistic Reactivity -- 8.3. Defensive Reactions to Humans by Farm Animals -- 9. Finding and Acquiring Food -- 9.1. Foraging and Control Terms -- 9.2. Grazing and Browsing Behaviour -- 9.3. Finding Food -- 9.4. Ability to Obtain Food -- 9.5. Feeding -- 9.6. Meal Size and Food Selection -- 9.7. The Effects of Disturbance -- 9.8. Social Facilitation of Feeding -- 9.9. Competition and Feeding Behaviour -- 9.10. Hunger, Starvation and Inability to Obtain Food -- 9.11. Over-feeding and Obesity -- 9.12. Feeding Details for Each Species -- 10. Body Care -- 10.1. Types of Body Care Behaviour -- 10.2. Organization of Body Care -- 10.3. Grooming, Preening, Dust-bathing -- 10.4. Thermoregulatory Behaviour -- 10.5. Defecation -- 11. Locomotion and Space Occupied -- 11.1. Locomotion and Exercise -- 11.2. Postures and Movements at Rest -- 11.3. Locomotion and Gaits -- 11.4. Distance Travelled -- 11.5. The Need for Exercise -- 12. Exploration -- 12.1. When to Explore -- 12.2. The Exploratory System -- 12.3. The Functions of Exploratory Behaviour -- 12.4. Factors Affecting Exploratory Behaviour -- 12.5. Exploration and Awareness -- 13. Spacing Behaviour -- 13.1. Types of Spacing -- 13.2. Home Range -- 13.3. Territory -- 13.4. Individual Space -- 13.5. Spatial Features -- 13.6. Association versus Avoidance -- 13.7. Spatial Needs -- 13.8. Crowding -- 13.9. Spacing Behaviour for Each Species -- 14. Rest and Sleep -- 14.1. Describing Rest and Sleep -- 14.2. Postures During Sleep and Sleep Deprivation -- 14.3. Sleep for Each Species -- 15. General Social Behaviour -- 15.1. Social Behaviour Terms -- 15.2. Groups, Packs, Flocks and Herds -- 15.3. Communication -- 15.4. Associations and Social Networks -- 15.5. Social Grouping in Each Species -- 15.6. Leaders and Followers -- 15.7. Social Facilitation -- 15.8. Social Order -- 16. Human-Domestic Animal Interactions -- 16.1. When Inter-specific Interactions Occur -- 16.2. Benefits to Those That Interact -- 17. Seasonal and Reproductive Behaviour -- 17.1. Reproductive Effort -- 17.2. Sensory Factors in Reproduction -- 17.3. Hormonal and Pheromonal Facilitation -- 17.4. Seasonal and Climatic Breeding Responses -- 18. Sexual Behaviour -- 18.1. Female Characteristics -- 18.2. Oestrus -- 18.3. Male Reproduction: Libido -- 18.4. Male Courtship -- 18.5. Male Sexual Behaviour -- 18.6. Mating Behaviour -- 19. Fetal and Parturient Behaviour -- 19.1. Influences on and by the Fetus -- 19.2. Fetal Action Patterns and Movement Sequences -- 19.3. Parturient Behaviour -- 19.4. Postpartum Behaviour -- 20. Maternal and Neonatal Behaviour -- 20.1. Parental Investment -- 20.2. Initiation of Maternal Behaviour -- 20.3. Maternal Motivation -- 20.4. Milk 'Let-down' -- 20.5. Nursing and Suckling -- 20.6. The Behaviour of the Neonate -- 20.7. Neonatal Behaviour in Each Species -- 21. Juvenile and Play Behaviour -- 21.1. Juvenile Behaviour in Each Species -- 21.2. Behavioural Aspects of Weaning and Puberty -- 21.3. Play Behaviour -- 22. Handling, Transport and Humane Control of Domestic Animals -- 22.1. Transport and Associated Actions -- 22.2. Ships and Vehicles Used in Transport -- 22.3. Animal Genetics and Transport -- 22.4. Rearing Conditions, Experience and Transport -- 22.5. Mixing Social Groups and Transport -- 22.6. Handling, Loading and Unloading -- 22.7. Temperature and Other Physical Conditions During Transport -- 22.8. Vehicle Driving Methods and Space Allowance -- 22.9. Feeding and Watering During Transport -- 22.10. Journey Duration -- 22.11. Disease, Welfare and Transport -- 22.12. Inspection of Animals -- 22.13. Facilities for Moving Animals -- 22.14. Pharmacological Control -- 23. Stunning and Slaughter -- 23.1. Euthanasia and Humane Killing -- 23.2. Humane Killing in the Slaughterhouse -- 23.3. Religious Slaughter Without Stunning -- 23.4. Gas Stunning and Killing -- 23.5. Low-pressure Stunning -- 23.6. Stunning and Carcass Quality -- 23.7. Mass Killing for Disease Control -- 24. Welfare and Behaviour in Relation to Disease -- 24.1. Pathogen and Parasite Effects -- 24.2. Links Between Behaviour and Disease -- 24.3. Disease and Welfare -- 24.4. Welfare and Disease Susceptibility -- 24.5. Some Adaptive Cytokine Responses to Pathology -- 24.6. Behaviour in Disease Diagnosis -- 25. Abnormal Behaviour 1: Stereotypies -- 25.1. What Is Abnormality? -- 25.2. Stereotypy Description and Causation -- 25.3. Details of Each Stereotypy -- 26. Abnormal Behaviour 2: Self-directed and Environment-directed -- 26.1. Direction of Abnormal Behaviour -- 26.2. Self-mutilation -- 26.3. Abnormal Eating -- 26.4. Polydipsia -- 27. Abnormal Behaviour 3: Addressed to Another Individual -- 27.1. Abnormal Behaviour Motivation -- 27.2. Animals Treated as Objects -- 27.3. Animals Treated as Sexual Partners -- 27.4. Animals Treated as Mother -- 27.5. Animals Treated as Rivals -- 28. Abnormal Behaviour 4: Failure of Function -- 28.1. Failure of Function -- 28.2. Inadequacies of Sexual Functioning -- 28.3. Inadequacies of Parental Behaviour -- 28.4. Abnormalities of Basic Movements -- 29. Abnormal Behaviour 5: Anomalous Reactivity -- 29.1. High or Low Reactivity -- 29.2. Prolonged Inactivity -- 29.3. Tonic Immobility

29.4. Unresponsiveness -- 29.5. Hyperactivity -- 29.6. Hysteria -- 30. Welfare of Cattle -- 30.1. Cattle Species -- 30.2. Public Perceptions of the Dairy and Beef Industries -- 30.3. Ill-treatment and Neglect -- 30.4. Feeding and Flooring -- 30.5. Welfare of Calves -- 30.6. Welfare of Beef Cattle -- 30.7. Welfare of Dairy Cows -- 30.8. Bullfighting -- 31. Welfare of Sheep and Goats -- 31.1. Sheep, Goats: Similarities and Differences -- 31.2. Welfare of Lambs -- 31.3. Farm Mutilations -- 31.4. Footrot and Other Disease -- 31.5. Outdoor and Indoor Management Systems -- 32. Welfare of Pigs -- 32.1. Basis for Pig Welfare Problems -- 32.2. Dry Sows -- 32.3. Farrowing Sows and Suckling Piglets -- 32.4. Breeding Boars -- 32.5. Piglets and Fattening Pigs -- 33. Welfare of Poultry -- 33.1. Domestic Fowl -- 33.2. Laying Hens -- 33.3. Chickens Reared for Meat -- 33.4. Turkeys -- 33.5. Ducks and Geese -- 34. Welfare of Farmed and Pet Fish -- 34.1. Species and Numbers -- 34.2. Fish Welfare, Awareness and Pain -- 34.3. Glucocorticoids in Fish -- 34.4. Impact of Terminology on Fish Welfare -- 34.5. Welfare Problems of Fish -- 34.6. Particular Concerns for Pet Fish -- 35. Welfare of Deer, Camelids and Ostriches -- 35.1. Domestication and Welfare -- 35.2. Reindeer -- 35.3. Red Deer and Other Deer Species -- 35.4. Llamas and Alpacas -- 35.5. Camels

Note continued: 35.6. Ostriches and Other Ratites -- 36. Welfare of Animals Kept for Fur Production -- 36.1. Species Used and Changes in Captivity -- 36.2. Farmed Mink -- 36.3. Ferrets -- 36.4. Farmed Foxes -- 36.5. Coypu -- 36.6. Raccoon Dogs -- 36.7. Chinchillas -- 36.8. Sable -- 37. Welfare of Horses, Other Equids and Other Draught Animals -- 37.1. Ill-treatment and Neglect -- 37.2. Riding, Whipping and Working in Relation to Welfare -- 37.3. Training Methods and Welfare -- 37.4. Surgical Operations -- 37.5. Breeding and Welfare -- 37.6. Housing and Management -- 38. Welfare of Farmed and Pet Rabbits -- 38.1. Rabbit Welfare Studies -- 38.2. Housing, Mortality and Injuries -- 38.3. Handling and Providing for Needs -- 38.4. Rabbits as Companions? -- 39. Welfare of Dogs -- 39.1. Domestication and Breeding -- 39.2. Identifying Dog Welfare Problems -- 39.3. Mutilations -- 39.4. Social and Environmental Problems -- 39.5. Harsh or Inadequate Training Methods -- 39.6. Dogs that Attack Humans or Other Animals -- 39.7. Inappropriate Feeding -- 39.8. Inadequate Treatment of Disease and Unwanted Dogs -- 40. Welfare of Cats -- 40.1. Domestication and Breeding -- 40.2. Mutilations of Cats for the Convenience of Owners -- 40.3. Unwanted Cats and Methods of Killing -- 40.4. Behaviour Problems -- 40.5. Managing the Impact of Cats on Wild Animals -- 40.6. Inappropriate Feeding -- 40.7. Inadequate Treatment of Disease -- 41. Welfare of Other Pet Animals -- 41.1. Suitability: Taken from the Wild or Bred in Captivity? -- 41.2. Small Mammals: Housing and Management -- 41.3. Birds: Housing and Management -- 41.4. Reptiles and Amphibians -- 41.5. Invertebrates -- 42. Welfare in a Moral World.

"Completely updated and revised with new information on sustainability, ethics, philosophy, human-animal interactions, data, tools and brain function and behaviour, the sixth edition of this best-selling book continues to provide veterinary and animal science students with a comprehensive yet approachable guide to animal behaviour and welfare"-- Provided by publisher.