Animal welfare. Understanding sentient minds and why it matters / (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Understanding sentient minds and why it matters
• Further Information: Note: John Webster.
• Authors: Webster, John, 1938-
• Contents: About the author Preface Acknowledgements Part 1. The sentient mind, skills and strategies Chapter 1: Setting the scene human attitudes to animals animal behaviour science rules of engagement Chapter 2: Sentience and the sentient mind Sentience and consciousness the five skandhas of sentience understanding the sentient mind pain and suffering fear and dread coping with challenge: stress and boredom social life comfort and joy hope and despair sex and love sentience in summary Chapter 3: Special senses and their interpretation vision- hearing smell and taste cutaneous sensation and touch magnetoreception interpreting the special senses theory of mind summary Chapter 4: Survival strategies foraging: honeybees, sheep, tool use, storing the harvest hunting behaviour, the predator and the prey spatial awareness and navigation breeding behaviour and parental care Chapter 5: Social strategies sentient social life social hierarchies, the pecking order communication cooperation and empathy social learning, education and culture territorial behaviour and tribalism Part 2. Shaping sentient minds: adaptation to the environment Chapter 6: Animals of the waters pain and fear survival skills, hunting, hiding and problem solving migration communication and social behaviour Chapter 7: Animals of the air feeding strategies migration sentience and breeding behaviour social behaviour, culture and education bats Chapter 8: Animals of the savannah and plains environmental challenges animals of the open plains sheep goats cattle wild Bovidae feral horses elephants predators Chapter 9: Animals of the forests the boreal forest cervidae beavers bears the tropical rain forest snakes primates Chapter 10: Close neighbours history of domestication artificial selection domestication, sentience and wellbeing pigs dogs cats dairy cows horses and donkeys chickens opportunist neighbours: rats and urban foxes coda Part 3 Why it matters: nature’s social union Chapter 11: Our duty of care sentience revisited outcome-based ethics death and killing farms, farmed animals and food animals in laboratories wild animals in captivity animals in sport and entertainment pets what can we learn from the animals? Further reading General reading Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 636.0832; Animal welfare; Animal intelligence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119857082
• Related ISBNs: 9781119857068
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