• 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.

    • 1: Introduction to Ideas and Measurement
    • 1: One Biology, Ethics, Sentience and Sustainability
    • 2: Behaviour and Welfare Concepts
    • 3: Describing, Recording and Measuring Behaviour
    • 2: Fundamental Topics
    • 4: Learning, Cognition and Behaviour Development
    • 5: Motivation
    • 6: Evolution and Optimality
    • 7: Welfare Assessment
    • 3: 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
    • 4: Reproductive and Social Behaviour
    • 15: General Social Behaviour
    • 16: Human–Domestic Animal Interactions
    • 17: Seasonal and Reproductive Behaviour
    • 18: Sexual Behaviour
    • 5: Early and Parental Behaviour
    • 19: Fetal and Parturient Behaviour
    • 20: Maternal and Neonatal Behaviour
    • 21: Juvenile and Play Behaviour
    • 6: 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
    • 7: 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

  • 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).

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