Welfare concepts II
7 important questions on Welfare concepts II
What makes humans unique compared to other animals?
What are arguments for the existence of animal consciousness?
- Versatility of behaviour (learning, tool use)
- Expression of subjective experiences (analogous reasoning)
Why do dogs bark?
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Are pigs happy in the mud?
Do you keep rodents together or alone? And why?
Which behavioural needs aren important?
- Behaviour include certain costs
- Changes in benefit to perform behaviour and the decrease of the costs -> behaviour is performed more often
What are "opportunity" situations?
- Enough food + less predactors -> costs for playing decreases, playing increases
- Foraging is an opportunity in well fed cows (but a need in food deprived cows)
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