Animal behaviour, animal welfare and the scientific study of affect
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Animal behaviour, animal welfare and the scientific study of affect
Many questions about animal welfare involve the affective states of animals (pain, fear, distress) and people look to science to clarify these issues as a basis for practices, policies and standards. However, the science of the mid twentieth century tended to be silent on matters of animal affect for both philosophical and methodological reasons. Philosophically, under the influence of Positivi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0168-1591
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.02.020