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	Author	Cooper, J.J.; Mason, G.J.
	Title	The identification of abnormal behaviour and behavioural problems in stabled horses and their relationship to horse welfare: a comparative review			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1998	Publication	Equine Veterinary Journal. Supplement	Abbreviated Journal	Equine Vet J Suppl
	Volume		Issue	27	Pages	5-9
	Keywords	Animal Welfare; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Horses/psychology; Housing, Animal/standards; *Stereotyped Behavior
	Abstract	Many behaviours in domestic animals, such as the 'stable vices' of horses, are treated because they are considered undesirable for economic or cultural reasons, and not because the activity affects the horse's quality of life. The impact of a behaviour on the human reporter is not a function of its impact on the animal performer, and an understanding of the causes and effects of the particular activity is necessary to assess the costs and benefits of treatment. Where the behaviour is a sign of poor welfare, such as an inadequate environment, treatment can best be achieved by removing these underlying causal factors. Pharmacological or physical prevention of a behaviour can be justified only if the behaviour causes harm to the performer or to others. In these cases, prevention of the behaviour without addressing its causes is no cure and may result in its perseverance in a modified form or the disruption of the animal's ability to adapt to its environment. Where the behavioural 'problem' causes no harm and is not related to poor housing, then the education of the reporter, rather than treatment of the performer, may be the best solution.
	Address	Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
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	Notes	PMID:10484995			Approved	no
	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	1933
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	Author	Waran, N.K.
	Title	Can studies of feral horse behaviour be used for assessing domestic horse welfare?			Type
	Year	1997	Publication	Equine Veterinary Journal	Abbreviated Journal	Equine Vet J
	Volume	29	Issue	4	Pages	249-251
	Keywords	Animal Husbandry/methods; Animal Welfare; Animals; Animals, Domestic; Animals, Wild; Behavior, Animal; Horses/*psychology; Social Behavior
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	ISSN	0425-1644	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:15338901			Approved	no
	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	1936
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	Author	Zeeb, K.
	Title	[Possibilities for the all-year free-range raising of horses]			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1994	Publication	DTW. Deutsche Tierarztliche Wochenschrift	Abbreviated Journal	Dtsch Tierarztl Wochenschr
	Volume	101	Issue	3	Pages	122-123
	Keywords	Animal Feed; Animal Husbandry; Animal Welfare; Animals; Germany; Horses/physiology; Housing, Animal; Seasons; Weather
	Abstract	The ethological concept concerning supply of needs an avoidance of damage is mentioned as a possibility for the evaluation of welfare aspects related to animal management. The 250 Dulmen horses kept on 300 ha by the Duke of Croy show what must be provided for horse-keeping in a semi-natural environment: Sufficient food and water, efficient shelter as well as adequate structures for the needs of horses concerning social and comfort behaviour. A catalogue of factors, functions and facilities for this kind of horse-keeping is presented.
	Address	Tierhygienischen Institut, Freiburg, Breisgau
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	Language	German	Summary Language		Original Title	Moglichkeiten der ganzjahrigen Freilandhaltung von Pferden
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	ISSN	0341-6593	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:8205954			Approved	no
	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	1941
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	Author	Cloutier, S.; Newberry, R.C.; Honda, K.
	Title	Comparison of social ranks based on worm-running and aggressive behaviour in young domestic fowl			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2004	Publication	Behavioural Processes	Abbreviated Journal	Behav. Process.
	Volume	65	Issue	1	Pages	79-86
	Keywords	Aggression; Social behaviour; Dominance; Play; Chickens; Animal welfare
	Abstract	Worm-running is behaviour in which a chick runs carrying a worm-like object while flock mates follow and attempt to grab the object from its beak. We hypothesised that social ranks based on worm-running frequency are stable over time and are positively correlated with social ranks based on success in aggressive interactions when older. At 8-12 days of age, we scored worm-running in 17 groups of 12 female White Leghorn chicks during three 10-min tests. Based on instantaneous scans at 5-s intervals, the bird carrying the `worm' most often was placed in rank one and so on down the rank order. These tests were repeated at 68-70 days of age. An aggression index for each bird was calculated as the number of aggressive acts given, divided by the number given and received, during three 1-h observation periods when the birds were 68-70 days. Ranks obtained in worm-running tests were positively correlated over the two age periods (P<0.05) but were not correlated with ranks based on the aggression index (P>0.05). Our results indicate that worm-running ranks are not predictive of success in aggressive interactions. Instead, worm-running fits some criteria for play.
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	Call Number				Serial	2090
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	Author	Allen, C.
	Title	Assessing animal cognition: ethological and philosophical perspectives			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1998	Publication	Journal of Animal Science	Abbreviated Journal	J. Anim Sci.
	Volume	76	Issue	1	Pages	42-47
	Keywords	Agriculture; Animal Welfare; Animals; Animals, Domestic/physiology/psychology; Behavior, Animal/physiology; Cognition/physiology; Ethology; *Philosophy; Research
	Abstract	Developments in the scientific and philosophical study of animal cognition and mentality are of great importance to animal scientists who face continued public scrutiny of the treatment of animals in research and agriculture. Because beliefs about animal minds, animal cognition, and animal consciousness underlie many people's views about the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals, it has become increasingly difficult for animal scientists to avoid these issues. Animal scientists may learn from ethologists who study animal cognition and mentality from an evolutionary and comparative perspective and who are at the forefront of the development of naturalistic and laboratory techniques of observation and experimentation that are capable of revealing the cognitive and mental properties of nonhuman animals. Despite growing acceptance of the ethological study of animal cognition, there are critics who dispute the scientific validity of the field, especially when the topic is animal consciousness. Here, a proper understanding of developments in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science can help to place cognitive studies on a firm methodological and philosophical foundation. Ultimately, this is an interdisciplinary task, involving scientists and philosophers. Animal scientists are well-positioned to contribute to the study of animal cognition because they typically have access to a large pool of potential research subjects whose habitats are more controlled than in most field studies while being more natural than most laboratory psychology experiments. Despite some formidable questions remaining for analysis, the prospects for progress in assessing animal cognition are bright.
	Address	Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-4237, USA
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	ISSN	0021-8812	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:9464883			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2750
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	Author	Swanson, J.C.
	Title	Farm animal well-being and intensive production systems			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1995	Publication	Journal of Animal Science	Abbreviated Journal	J. Anim Sci.
	Volume	73	Issue	9	Pages	2744-2751
	Keywords	Animal Husbandry/legislation & jurisprudence/standards; Animal Rights/legislation & jurisprudence/standards; Animal Welfare/legislation & jurisprudence/standards; Animals; Animals, Domestic/growth & development/physiology; Breeding/legislation & jurisprudence/*standards; Cattle; Chickens; Environment; Reproduction/physiology; Sheep; Swine
	Abstract	Animal welfare, or well-being, is a social issue with ethical, scientific, political, and aesthetic properties. Answering questions about the welfare of animals requires scientific definition, assessment, solutions, and public acceptance. With respect to the actual well-being of the animal, most issues are centered on how the animal “feels” when managed within a specific level of confinement, during special agricultural practices (e.g., tail docking, beak trimming, etc.) and handling. Questions of this nature may require exploration of animal cognition, motivation, perception, and emotional states in addition to more commonly recognized indicators of well-being. Several general approaches have emerged for solving problems concerning animal well-being in intensive production systems: environmental, genetic, and therapeutic. Environmental approaches involve modifying existing systems to accommodate specific welfare concerns or development of alternative systems. Genetic approaches involve changing the behavioral and (or) physiological nature of the animal to reduce or eliminate behaviors that are undesirable within intensive system. Therapeutic approaches of a physical (tail docking, beak trimming) and physiological (drug and nutritional therapy) nature bring both concern and promise with regard to the reduction of confinement stress. Finally, the recent focus on commodity quality assurance programs may indirectly provide benefits for animal well-being. Although research in the area of animal well-being will provide important information for better animal management, handling, care, and the physical design of intensive production systems there is still some uncertainty regarding public acceptance. The aesthetics of modern intensive production systems may have as much to do with public acceptance as with science.
	Address	Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506, USA
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	ISSN	0021-8812	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:8582867			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2752
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	Author	Duncan, I.J.; Petherick, J.C.
	Title	The implications of cognitive processes for animal welfare			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1991	Publication	Journal of Animal Science	Abbreviated Journal	J. Anim Sci.
	Volume	69	Issue	12	Pages	5017-5022
	Keywords	Animal Welfare; Animals; Animals, Domestic/psychology; *Cognition
	Abstract	In general, codes that have been designed to safeguard the welfare of animals emphasize the importance of providing an environment that will ensure good health and a normal physiological and physical state, that is, they emphasize the animals' physical needs. If mental needs are mentioned, they are always relegated to secondary importance. The argument is put forward here that animal welfare is dependent solely on the cognitive needs of the animals concerned. In general, if these cognitive needs are met, they will protect the animals' physical needs. It is contended that in the few cases in which they do not safeguard the physical needs, it does not matter from a welfare point of view. The human example is given of being ill. It is argued that welfare is only adversely affected when a person feels ill, knows that he or she is ill, or even thinks that he or she is ill, all of which processes are cognitive ones. The implications for welfare of animals possessing certain cognitive abilities are discussed. For example, the extent to which animals are aware of their internal state while performing behavior known to be indicative of so-called states of suffering, such as fear, frustration, and pain, will determine how much they are actually suffering. With careful experimentation it may be possible to determine how negative they feel these states to be. Similarly, the extent to which animals think about items or events absent from their immediate environment will determine how frustrated they are in the absence of the real item or event but in the presence of the cognitive representation.
	Address	University of Guelph, Canada
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	Notes	PMID:1808195			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2753
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	Author	Curtis, S.E.; Stricklin, W.R.
	Title	The importance of animal cognition in agricultural animal production systems: an overview			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1991	Publication	Journal of Animal Science	Abbreviated Journal	J. Anim Sci.
	Volume	69	Issue	12	Pages	5001-5007
	Keywords	Agriculture; Animal Population Groups/psychology; Animal Welfare; Animals; Behavior, Animal; *Cognition; Heat; Helplessness, Learned; Housing, Animal/standards; Immobilization; Nesting Behavior; Pain/psychology/veterinary
	Abstract	To describe and then fulfill agricultural animals' needs, we must learn more about their fundamental psychological and behavioral processes. How does this animal feel? Is that animal suffering? Will we ever be able to know these things? Scientists specializing in animal cognition say that there are numerous problems but that they can be overcome. Recognition by scientists of the notion of animal awareness has been increasing in recent years, because of the work of Griffin and others. Feeling, thinking, remembering, and imagining are cognitive processes that are factors in the economic and humane production of agricultural animals. It has been observed that the animal welfare debate depends on two controversial questions: Do animals have subjective feelings? If they do, can we find indicators that reveal them? Here, indirect behavioral analysis approaches must be taken. Moreover, the linear additivity of several stressor effects on a variety of animal traits suggests that some single phenomenon is acting as a “clearinghouse” for many or all of the stresses acting on an animal at any given time, and this phenomenon might be psychological stress. Specific situations animals may encounter in agricultural production settings are discussed with respect to the animals' subjective feelings.
	Address	University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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	ISSN	0021-8812	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:1808193			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2754
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	Author	Kirkwood, J.K.
	Title	Animal minds and animal welfare			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2000	Publication	The Veterinary Record	Abbreviated Journal	Vet. Rec.
	Volume	146	Issue	11	Pages	327
	Keywords	Animal Welfare; Animals; Animals, Domestic/psychology; *Cognition; Consciousness; Veterinary Medicine/standards
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	ISSN	0042-4900	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:10766123			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2856
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	Author	Watanabe, S.
	Title	How animal psychology contributes to animal welfare			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2007	Publication	Applied Animal Behaviour Science	Abbreviated Journal	Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci.
	Volume	106	Issue	4	Pages	193-202
	Keywords	Animal welfare; Anthropomorphism; Animal psychology; Reinforcement; Socially constructed concept
	Abstract	This article explores the contribution of animal psychology to animal welfare. Since animal welfare includes subjective welfare, it is crucial to know the subjective world of animals. Analysis of the concept of anthropomorphism is particularly important because it is a basic idea of animal ethics. The history of animal psychology, focusing on anthropomorphism and behaviourism, is briefly described, and then measurement of the subjective experience of animals in two ways, namely animal cognition and pleasure or reinforcing effects, is reported. Finally, it is suggested that animal welfare is not a permanently fixed idea, but a socially constructed one that can be changed. To gain widespread agreement about a socially constructed idea, it is important to know in which circumstances ordinary people employ metaphorical extension to an understanding of animal behaviour. In other words, a survey of “folk animal psychology” is important in order to establish a consensus about animal welfare.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2888
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