Animal Welfare Flashcards
Altered level of activity
Behaviour involving extreme expression such as hyper-aggression or excessive sleeping.
Ethics
Moral values and rules that ought to govern human conduct.
Ethogram
List of all the different observed behaviours shown by an animal.
Ethology
Study of animal behaviour.
Misdirected
Behaviour that is directed inappropriately towards the animal, another animal or it’s surroundings.
Motivation
Process that arouses and directs the behaviour of an animal to satisfy one of its basic needs.
Preference
Type of test that gives an animal a choice between two conditions to determine which one it prefers.
Social contact
Access to a company or other members of an animal’s own kind.
Stereotypy
Behaviour pattern in the form of repetitive movements lacking in variation.
Wellbeing
Animal’s quality of life, regarded as acceptable if the animal can behave naturally, grow well and live free of disease.
Behaviour involving extreme expression such as hyper-aggression or excessive sleeping.
Altered level of activity
Moral values and rules that ought to govern human conduct.
Ethics
List of all the different observed behaviours shown by an animal.
Ethogram
Study of animal behaviour.
Ethology
Behaviour that is directed inappropriately towards the animal, another animal or it’s surroundings.
Misdirected
