Advances in Applied Zoo Animal Welfare Science

Zoo animal welfare.

The history of zoo animal welfare legislation extends back to 1876, and is often tied to general animal welfare regulations. As knowledge and societal values have changed, so have the focus of zoos and the regulations governing them. Today, the issues involved in zoo animal welfare are complex and broad-based. Building on the basic welfare tenets of adequate feed, water, shelter, sanitation and...

Editor's introduction to the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science.

Measuring zoo animal welfare : Theory and practice 7 8

30 The assessment of animal welfare relates to investigations of how animals try to cope 31 with their environment, and how easy or how difficult it is for them to do so. The use of 32 rigorous scientific methods to assess this has grown over the past few decades, and so 33 our understanding of the needs of animals has improved during this time. Much of the 34 work in the field of animal welfar...

"Concepts in animal welfare": a syllabus in animal welfare science and ethics for veterinary schools.

Public attitudes toward animal welfare have improved with growing social affluence, and veterinarians are increasingly expected to be informed about animal welfare in a broader sense than health alone. However, animal welfare has not been a traditional component of the veterinary curriculum. To help address this lack, the World Society for the Protection of Animals(WSPA) and the University of B...

Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Welfare

Many researchers have studied the oxytetracycline (OTC) pharmacokinetic profile following oral administration in multiple aquatic animal species including shrimp[1-5], sea turtles[6], and fish[7-11], However, Rigos & Smith[12], described the void of data in the literature showing a clinical effect of OTC in fish that could be directly predicted, correlated, or assessed from OTC concentrations i...