Broom and Fraser's domestic animal behaviour and welfare /
written by Donald M. Broom.
- Sixth edition.
- xxvii, 545 pages : illustrations (colour)
I. Introduction to ideas and measurement -- One biology, ethics, sentience and sustainability -- Behaviour and welfare concepts -- Describing, recording and measuring behaviour -- II. Fundamental topics -- Learning, cognition and behaviour development -- Experimental learning studies -- Motivation -- Evolution and optimality -- Welfare assessment -- III. Organization of behaviour -- Defence and attack behaviour -- Finding and acquiring food -- Body care -- Locomotion and space occupied -- Exploration -- Spacing behaviour -- Rest and sleep -- IV. Reproductive and social behaviour -- General social behaviour -- Human-domestic animal interactions -- Seasonal and reproductive behaviour -- Sexual behaviour -- V. Early and parental behaviour -- Fetal and parturient behaviour -- Maternal and neonatal behaviour -- Juvenile and play behaviour -- VI. Welfare topics -- Handling, transport and humane control of domestic animals -- Stunning and slaughter -- Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease -- Abnormal behaviour 1 : stereotypes -- Abnormal behaviour 2: self-directed and environment-directed -- Abnormal behaviour 3 : addressed to another individual -- Abnormal behaviour 4 : failure of function -- Abnormal behaviour 5 : anomalous reactivity -- VII. Welfare of various animals -- Welfare of cattle -- Welfare of sheep and goats -- Welfare of pigs -- Welfare of poultry -- Welfare of farmed and pet fish -- Welfare of deer, camelids and ostriches -- Welfare of animals kept for fur production -- Welfare of horses, other equids and other draught animals -- Welfare of farmed and pet rabbits -- Welfare of dogs -- Welfare of cats -- Welfare of other pet animals -- welfare in a moral world.