Animal Welfare and Symbiosis Flashcards
Benefits of providing good animal welfare
- higher value of product
- good public relations
- healthier animals
- lower risk of disease spread
Indicators of poor animal welfare
- misdirected behaviour
- stereotypy
- failure of reproductive or parental behaviour
- altered levels of activity
How animal welfare can be improved
- Enriching animals environment (toys)
- providing company
Ethology
The study of animal behaviour
Ethogram
The name given to a list of animal behaviours
Preference test
Providing animals a choice of conditions and observing which it spends most time in
Symbiosis
(Co-evolved) relationship between members of two different species.
Types of symbiosis
- parasitism
- mutualism
Parasitism
When the parasite benefits by gaining energy or resources and the host is harmed.
Parasite
An organism which gains energy from the host, at the hosts expense.
Mutualism
When both species benefit from the relationship
Vector
Carries a parasite from host to host
Why could a parasite lifecycle involve a secondary host?
If they have no method of movement, it allows them to survive until back in contact with the primary host.
The costs of providing good animal welfare
- financial costs of high quality food and protection from predators
- lower yield per unit area
