Take Home Messages Flashcards
What offers the basics of animal protection ethics?
Biology and Veterinary Medicine
Define ‘Animal Welfare’?
An effort for a possible optimum in well-being, preventing pain and suffering, a claim by humans.
Data from the science of animal protection aims to make the discussion…
more professional.
What is animal protection dependent on?
Society and Politics
Pain and suffering can be concluded with…
Indicators and wisely designed experiments
Background music may…
Increase Milk Production
Calm Animals:
- Mice, Rats Guinea Pigs (Bach-Effect)
- Shelter dogs, Horses
Habituation to various noises may…
Prevent Shock (In rats and Chicks)
What music is effective for bioacustics?
1-60 bpm
- Recurrent withing 1 minute*
- Bach-Mozart*
How can musical bioacoustics be measured?
EEG, fMRI, NIRS
What are the short/longterm effects of bioacoustics?
Memory performance
Learning
Epilepsy
Gene expression in the brain
What was observed with the behaviour of chimpanzees to music?
A significan positive effect
Less aggressive and excitable behaviour
List the 5 freedoms
Animals kept under intensive livestock husbandry are free:
- From hunger and Thirst
- From discomfort
- From pain, Injury or disease
- To express normal behaviour
- From fear and distress
Instinct can be summised that
Simple stiumuli trigger a fixed behaviour
e.g Hunger
Give the 5 forms of learning
- Habituation
- Imprinting
- Insight Learning
- Observational Learning
- Associative Learning:
(Classic Conditioning, Operant Contditioning, Latent Learning)
Exploratory behaviour requires…
Environmental Enrichment
Evidence of animals with conciousness are…
The octopus
Observed retrieving and manipulating coconut shells to use as a shell.
What evidence was used to prove self-awareness in dogs?
Sniff test of self-recognition (STSR)
Give a situation that may lead to populations developing social groups
When resources are distributed in a way that supports group living
Peck order is observed in…
Birds
Wolves
Baboons
Courtship is a type of…
Fixed Action Pattern
What is resource holding potential (RHP)?
The ability to defend resources:
- Mating opportunities
- Territories
Give the diagram of the Hawk-Dove model
V = Fitness Value
C = Costs
What is territoriality?
Animals defend territories:
- When it is economically advantageous
- During self-protection against conspecifics
This doesn’t happen if this isn’t the case
Give the 6 types of communication
- Language
- Optic
- Chemical
- Acoustic
- Tactile
- Electric
Give two examples of Altruism
- An individual giving an alarm signal is always in bigger danger than the conspecifics
- Sterile Males in a Termite Tower
What is Hamilton’s Rule, what does it mean?
r B > C
Altruism can occur via natural selection
What is pain?
Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with tissue damage
Describe the reflex response to painful stimuli
Fixed action pattern:
Along spinal cord to brain, body then gives a return signal
What occired in Weiss’ rat trials?
Rat 1: Light was presented to rats followed by an electric shock
Rat 2: As above only without a clear relationship between the light and shock
Rat 1 could turn a wheel to turn the shock off
What is Corticothalamic ‘Blunting’?
Release of endorphines during excited emotional states and severe tissue damage
Analgesic effect
What are the sources of painful stimuli?
Hunger and Thirst
Parasites
Slaughering
Chronic Illness
Surgery and Experimental Procedures