Table of Contents

1: Introduction to Ideas and Measurement 1: Introduction and Concepts 2: Describing, Recording and Measuring Behaviour 2: Fundamental Topics 3: Learning, Cognition and Behaviour Development 4: Motivation 5: Evolution and Optimality 6: Welfare Assessment 3: Organization of Behaviour 7: Behaviour Towards Predators and Social Attackers, Anti-predator Strategies 8: Feeding 9: Body Care 10: Locomotion and Space Occupied 11: Exploration 12: Spacing Behaviour 13: Rest and Sleep 4: Reproductive and Social Behaviour 14: General Social Behaviour 15: Human-Domestic Animal Interactions 16: Seasonal and Reproductive Behaviour 17: Sexual Behaviour 5: Early and Parturient Behaviour 18: Fetal and Parturient Behaviour 19: Maternal and Neonatal Behaviour 20: Juvenile and Play Behaviour 6: Welfare Topics 21: Handling, Transport and Humane Control of Domestic Animals 22: Stunning and Slaughter 23: Welfare and Behaviour in Relation to Disease 24: Abnormal Behaviour 1: Stereotypies 25: Abnormal Behaviour 2: Self-directed and Environment-directed 26: Abnormal Behaviour 3: Addressed to Another Individual 27: Abnormal Behaviour 4: Failure of Function 28: Abnormal Behaviour 5: Anomalous Reactivity 7: Welfare of Various Animals 29: The Welfare of Cattle 30: The Welfare of Sheep and Goats 31: The Welfare of Pigs 32: The Welfare of Poultry 33: The Welfare of Farmed and Pet Fish 34: The Welfare of Animals Kept for Fur Production 35: The Welfare of Horses, other Equids and other Draught Animals 36: The Welfare of Farmed and Pet Rabbits 37: The Welfare of Dogs 38: The Welfare of Cats 39: The Welfare of Other Pet Animals

About the Author

Donald M. Broom, Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, has developed concepts and methods of scientific assessment of animal welfare and studied: cognitive abilities of animals, the welfare of animals in relation to housing and transport, behaviour problems, attitudes to animals, sustainable livestock production and ethics of animal usage. He has published over 300 refereed papers and books including: Stress and Animal Welfare (2000 Springer), The Evolution of Morality and Religion (2003 CUP), Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 5th edition (2015 CABI), and Sentience and Animal Welfare (2014 CABI).