Domestic animal behaviour and welfare
By: Donald M. Broom and Andrew F. Fraser.
Contributors: Fraser, Andrew Ferguson.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845932879; 9781845932886
Subjects: Domestic animals -- Behavior; Pets -- Behavior; Animal welfare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Describing, recording and measuring behaviour; title: Experience, learning and behaviour development; title: Motivation; title: Evolution, optimality; title: Welfare assessment; title: Behaviour towards predators and social attackers; title: Feeding; title: Body care; title: Locomotion, space occupied; title: Exploration; title: Spacing behaviour; title: Rest and sleep; title: General social behaviour; title: Human-domestic animal interactions; title: Seasonal and reproductive behaviour; title: Sexual behaviour; title: Foetal and parturient behaviour; title: Maternal and neonatal behaviour; title: Juvenile and play behaviour; title: Handling, transport and humane control of domestic animals; title: Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease; title: Abnormal behaviour 1: Stereotypies; title: Abnormal behaviour 2: Self-directed and environment-directed; title: Abnormal behaviour 3: Addressed to another animal; title: Abnormal behaviour 4: Failures of function; title: Abnormal behaviour 5: Anomalous reactivity; title: Welfare of cattle; title: Welfare of pigs; title: Welfare of poultry; title: Welfare of farmed and pet fish; title: Welfare of animals kept for fur production; title: Welfare of horses; title: Welfare of farmed and pet rabbits; title: Welfare of dogs; title: Welfare of cats.