Asking Animals: An Introduction to Animal Behaviour Testing (eBook)

BIRTE L NIELSEN (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
232 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78924-063-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book gives an introduction to the use of behaviour tests applied to animals. By including illustrative examples from a variety of species, it aims to inspire the animal scientist to think about what a given behavioural test can be used for, and how the results can be interpreted.

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Contemporary, thought-provoking yet utterly practical, this book provides an introductory text covering the use and misuse of behaviour tests applied to animals. By including illustrative examples from a variety of species, the book inspires the animal scientist to think about what a given behavioural test can be used for and how the results can be interpreted. This text includes: the dos and don'ts of running behaviour tests and interpreting the results; many clear, simple illustrations which make the information readily accessible, down to earth, practical advice yet a thorough, evidence-based approach; information on behaviour tests for a whole range of species from companion, farm, zoo, laboratory and wild animals; succinct yet comprehensive text, designed to be read cover to cover and stimulate further reading. This book is an essential item in the researcher's toolkit when embarking on and devising any animal behaviour test and is valuable to students, established researchers, teachers and practitioners of applied ethology, animal welfare science, and veterinary science.

Autor

Birte Nielsen is an applied ethologist currently working as Assistant Scientific Director at UFAW (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare) and their sister-charity HSA (Humane Slaughter Association). She has previously worked at the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in France and Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research has spanned the science of olfaction, studying the behavioural responses of rats to different smells, and feeding behaviour in ruminants. Birte has in-depth experience in experimental behaviour science on rats, growing pigs, dairy cows, broiler chickens and broiler breeders, and has been actively involved in work on horses, sows, laying hens and even ostriches.

Rezensionen

By consciously avoiding to cram too much in one [book] , Birte has reduced the quantity and increased the quality of the text, thereby delivering an excellent booklet about animal behaviour testing that I hereby highly recommend to read.

Nielsen writes with an engaging and accessible conversational style which unmistakeably conveys her self-declared personal fascination with these topics and invites the reader into her perspective. I would definitely recommend this text as a valuable, accessible and concise launch point for understanding and improving behavioural testing across disciplines and species.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 58 color line, 10 color photos
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Klinische Fächer ► Versuchstiere
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Kleintier
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Großtier ► Zoo- / Wildtier
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Pferd
• Schlagworte: Ability • animal • applied ethology • Assessment • Behaviour • Choice • Conditioning • Enrichment • fear • Habituation • innate • learning • Neuroscience • observations • Personality • Preference • Reinforcement • Reward • Social Environment • species • Stress • Tests • Training
• ISBN-10: 1-78924-063-8 / 1789240638
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78924-063-4 / 9781789240634