The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare
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Science-based assessment of animal welfare: wild and captive animals.
Science-based assessment of animal welfare in wild and captive animals has, during the past ten years, benefited from increased interest in and research into consciousness, emotions, stress and pain. Because it is impossible to make a detailed physiological study in free-living animals, reliance must be placed on behaviour and Darwinian fitness, which have been shown to correlate to welfare. On...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Reviews
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1464-7931,1469-185X
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12769