Key Area 4-Animal Welfare Flashcards

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What is animal welfare?

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Ensuring animals are reared in appropriate conditions

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What should you consider for animal welfare?

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  • costs- housing, bedding, medicine, feed
  • benefits- increased yield, successful breeding
  • ethics- freedom from pain and stress
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What are the five freedoms of animals?

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Freedom from:
~hunger and thirst
~discomfort
~fear and distress
~pain, injury and disease
~expression of abnormal behaviour
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What are four behavioural indicators that an animal has bad welfare?

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Stereotypy: behavioural pattern repetitive movements (linked to being in bare, confined spaces)
Misdirected behaviour: misdirected behaviour when in isolated environments
Sexual/parental behaviour: not reproducing at all or not giving proper care to their young
Level of activity: hyper-aggression or excessive sleeping

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What is ethology?

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The study of animal behaviour through observing animals in natural and semi-natural surroundings

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What can information from ethograms show?

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They allow scientists to form a hypothesis and animal welfare rules to be made

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What is a preference test?

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A tests set up to give an animal a choice of two conditions to see which one it favours

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What is motivation?

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A behaviour that drives animals to satisfy a basic need

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What happens if an animals basic needs are met?

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They lack motivation

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How can preference tests measure an animals motivational needs?

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You can see which of two choices it favours and whichever it favours it has motivation for

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