Animal Welfare

Question 1

Welfare refers to

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The state of an individual as it attempts to cope with its environment

Question 2

Prescriptive Zone

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Body adapting to maintain normal body temperature/health

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Tolerance Zone

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Adaptation alone is not enough, may lead to compromised physiological functions

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Survival Zone

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Outside Tolerance Zone—> severe stress, system function failure, risk of death

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Thermoneutral Zone (TNZ)

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Normal body response to maintain homeostasis

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Sentience

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Capacity to experience different feelings

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Five Freedoms

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1. Freedom from hunger and thirst
2. Freedom from discomfort
3. Freedom from pain, injury, or disease
4. Freedom to express normal behavior
5. Freedom from fear and distress

Question 8

Three concepts of Animal Welfare

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-biological function (ie. behaviour, physiology, health, productivity)
-affective state (ie. how an animal feels)
-natural state (the ideal environment for a particular species)

Question 9

5 Domains of Animal Welfare

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1. Nutrition
2. Environment
3. Health
4. Behaviour
5. Mental State

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Values

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Personal principles that what YOU believe to be correct/important/desirable (formed over time)

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Morals

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Judgements/beliefs about right or wrong and good or bad (variation worldwide)

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Ethics

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Study of concepts of right and wrong when applied to conduct/behaviour

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Stereotypies

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Repetitive behaviour with no obvious purpose (typically associated with boredom)

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Animal Ethics

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Examines human-animal relationship, moral consideration of animals, and how non-human animals ought to be treated

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Three R’s

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-Refine
-Reduce
-Replace

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Perception

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Being aware of changes happening around you

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Cognition

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Ability to remember, process, and assess information to meet individual needs

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Anthropomorphism

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Attribution of human traits/emotions/intentions to non-human entities

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Ethology

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Scientific study of behaviour of animals in their natural environment

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Sympathy

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Understanding from your own perspective (can cloud our judgement)

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Empathy

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Putting yourself in other’s perspective

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Handling of animals involves four key elements:

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-Welfare
-Behaviour
-Husbandry
-Ethical Interactions

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3 concepts to explain animal welfare:

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-Biological Function (behaviour, physiology, health, productivity)
-Affective State (ability to experience positive and negative feelings/emotions)
-Natural State View (the ideal environment for a particular species)

Question 24

Early animal welfare was mainly focused on

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Ensuring the absence of negative experiences (avoiding suffering)

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Institutional Ethics is based on

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A code of conduct at the workplace

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Professional Ethics is

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A code of conduct describing behavioural expectations for a specific profession

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Laws are

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Basic, enforceable standard of behaviour

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Social license is based on

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The premise that regulatory permission is NOT sufficient alone to allow companies to operate (they must have social permission)

Question 29

Input Measures represent

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-indirect parameters (training, housing/diet, breeding)
-easier to assess than Output Measures

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Output Measures represent

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-direct parameters (body lesions/condition, lameness, etc.)
-more difficult to measure than Input Measures

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QA stands for

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Quality Assurance

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International Standards of Animal Welfare are governed by the

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World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)