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Environmental enrichment can improve the overall welfare of animals in captivity and create a habitat similar to what they would experience in their wild environment. It aims to maintain an animal's physical and psychological health by increasing the range or number of species-specific behaviors, increasing positive interaction with the captive environment, preventing or reducing the frequency ...
Emily Patterson-Kane is a Kiwi-American animal psychologist who specializes in animal welfare science. Patterson-Kane was born in Hamilton, New Zealand and obtained a master's degree from University of Waikato. She obtained a PhD in animal psychology from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1999. She did postdoctoral research in animal ...
Animal welfare science is an emerging field that seeks to answer questions raised by the keeping and use of animals, such as whether hens are frustrated when confined in cages, [28] whether the psychological well-being of animals in laboratories can be maintained, [29] and whether zoo animals are stressed by the transport required for ...
When she was awarded her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, she studied the effects of environmental enrichment on pigs. The title of her dissertation was "Effect of Rearing Environment and Environmental Enrichment on the Behavior and Neural Development in Young Pigs". Grandin expanded her theories in her book, Animals Make Us Human.
Animal welfare science is the scientific study of the welfare of animals as pets, in zoos, laboratories, on farms and in the wild. Although animal welfare has been of great concern for many thousands of years in religion and culture, the investigation of animal welfare using rigorous scientific methods is a relatively recent development.
Arnold Arluke is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and senior fellow at the Tufts Center for animals and public policy. [1] Arluke earned a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard School of Public Health .
Stevens founded the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) in 1951 and the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL) in 1955. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under Stevens's leadership the SAPL succeeded in helping to pass animal protection laws including the Animal Welfare Act , Humane Slaughter Act , Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act .
Bateson was a biologist who specialised in researching the behaviour of animals and how it is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. He was a world authority on imprinting in birds – the process of learning to recognise their parents and members of their own species – and his work led to new principles in behavioural development.