BROOM AND FRASER'S DOMESTIC ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR AND WELFARE. 6TH EDITION

BROOM AND FRASER'S DOMESTIC ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR AND WELFARE. 6TH EDITION

Editorial:
CABI
Año de edición:
Materia
Veterinaria
ISBN:
978-1-78924-878-4
Páginas:
512
N. de edición:
6
Idioma:
Inglés
Disponibilidad:
Disponible en 2-3 semanas

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-5%

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65,00 €

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• Introduction to Ideas and Measurement
1: One Biology, Ethics, Sentience and Sustainability
2: Behaviour and Welfare Concepts
3: Describing, Recording and Measuring Behaviour
• Fundamental Topics
4: Learning, Cognition and Behaviour Development
5: Motivation
6: Evolution and Optimality
7: Welfare Assessment
• Organization of Behaviour
8: Defence and Attack Behaviour
9: Finding and Acquiring Food
10: Body Care
11: Locomotion and Space Occupied
12: Exploration
13: Spacing Behaviour
14: Rest and Sleep
• Reproductive and Social Behaviour
15: General Social Behaviour
16: Human–Domestic Animal Interactions
17: Seasonal and Reproductive Behaviour
18: Sexual Behaviour
• Early and Parental Behaviour
19: Fetal and Parturient Behaviour
20: Maternal and Neonatal Behaviour
21: Juvenile and Play Behaviour
• Welfare Topics
22: Handling, Transport and Humane Control of Domestic Animals
23: Stunning and Slaughter
24: Welfare and Behaviour in Relation to Disease
25: Abnormal Behaviour 1: Stereotypies
26: Abnormal Behaviour 2: Self-directed and Environment-directed
27: Abnormal Behaviour 3: Addressed to Another Individual
28: Abnormal Behaviour 4: Failure of Function
29: Abnormal Behaviour 5: Anomalous Reactivity
• Welfare of Various Animals
30: Welfare of Cattle
31: Welfare of Sheep and Goats
32: Welfare of Pigs
33: Welfare of Poultry
34: Welfare of Farmed and Pet Fish
35: Welfare of Deer, Camelids and Ostriches
36: Welfare of Animals Kept for Fur Production
37: Welfare of Horses, Other Equids and Other Draught Animals
38: Welfare of Farmed and Pet Rabbits
39: Welfare of Dogs
40: Welfare of Cats
41: Welfare of Other Pet Animals
42: Welfare in a Moral World

Completely updated and revised, and synthesizing the recent explosion in animal welfare literature, the sixth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a thorough overview of behaviour and welfare of companion and farm animals, including fish.
The introductory section has been completely revised, with all following chapters updated, redesigned and improved to reflect our changing understanding.

This edition includes:
- New and revised chapters on climate change and sustainability, ethics, and philosophy to ensure that the book provides the latest information in a changing world;
- New information on human interactions with other animal species, big data, modern technologies, brain function, emotions and behaviour;
- Solutions and advice for common abnormal behaviours.

Written by a world-leading expert and key opinion leader in animal behaviour and welfare, this text provides a highly accessible guide to the subject. It is an essential foundation for any veterinary, animal science, animal behaviour or
welfare-focused undergraduate or graduate course.

Author
Donald M. Broom, Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, has developed concepts and methods of scientific assessment of animal welfare and studied: cognitive abilities of animals, the welfare of animals in relation to housing and transport, behaviour problems, attitudes to animals, sustainable livestock production and ethics of animal usage. He has published over 300 refereed papers and books including: Stress and Animal Welfare (2000 Springer), The Evolution of Morality and Religion (2003 CUP), Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 5th edition (2015 CABI), and Sentience and Animal Welfare (2014 CABI).