Animal Choices

Authors: BSAS Occasional Publication No. 20
This volume explores the underlying factors of awareness, cognition, motivation and decision-making in animals.

It also covers how preferences and motivation are measured and the environmental, social and nutritional choices offered to and made by farm animals and the way in which these can be used to improve animal welfare.

Availability:In print
Publication date:1997
Binding:Paperback
Extent:130pp.
ISBN:0-906562-23-6

Book Contents

Animal awareness
Models of decision-making and how they affect the experimental assessment of motivational priorities
Measuring preferences and the problem of identifying proximate needs
Human-animal interactions in agriculture and their impact on animal welfare and performance
Environmental choices of farm animals
Social choices in farm animals: to fight or not to fight?
Nutritional choices in farm animals: to eat or what to eat?
Engineering choices into animal environments
Poster abstracts
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