Environmental enrichment is a vague concept referring to improvements to captive animal
environments. Some authors have applied the term to an environmental treatment itself …

Animal welfare is a state within the animal and a scientific perspective provides
methodologies for evidence-based assessment of an animal's welfare. A simplistic definition …

In debates about the welfare of animals, different people have tended to emphasize different
concerns. Some emphasize the basic health and functioning of animals, especially freedom …

Human-animal interactions have a profound effect on farm animals and stockpeople alike.
Training of stockpeople can improve livestock welfare and in turn productivity, and is a …

This book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how captive
breeding and management of wild and domestic animals have affected their behaviour and …

In captivity, some species often seem to thrive, while others are often prone to breeding
problems, poor health, and repetitive stereotypic behaviour. Within carnivores, for instance …

This scientific opinion focuses on the welfare of pigs on farm, and is based on literature and
expert opinion. All pig categories were assessed: gilts and dry sows, farrowing and lactating …

Co** behaviour is a response to aversive situations. Farm and laboratory animals kept in
intensive housing systems use a set of strategies (escape, remove, search, wait) to cope …

The usual restricted feeding level during gestation, whilst adequate to maximise economic
performance, might not fulfil behavioural needs of the sow. Hunger and frustration of feeding …

In animals, including humans, free access to high-quality (generally energy-dense) food can
result in obesity, leading to physiological and health problems. Consequently, various …