Animal Welfare Assessment Novel Approaches and Technologies

• Other Authors: Hempstead, Melissa (Editor), Marini, Danila (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Genetics (non-medical); bioethics; domestication; genetic selection; animal behavior; animal welfare; eye caruncle temperature; Spanish Sport Horse; performance test; genetic lines; heritability; infrared thermography; pigs; welfare; health; herd management; monitoring technologies; animal husbandry; welfare assessment; wellbeing; goat; caprine; dairy; dairy cows; heart rate; sleep; heart rate variability; polysomnography; animal-based welfare indicators; camera traps; wild horses; precision swine farming; ear tag pig sensor; behavioral monitoring; machine intelligence; technology adoption; broiler; corticosterone; performance; telomeres; telomere regulators; stress biomarkers; horse; equine; lying; time budget; locomotion; geriatric; orthopedic; recumbency; mixed commercial turkey flocks; on-farm assessment; YOLOv4; computer vision; animal monitoring; animal activity; body posture; rare minnow; environmental enrichment; growth; physiology; anxiety-like behavior; enrichment; hospitalization requirement; lameness; lesions; tail biting; attention bias; conventional cage; environmental complexity; feather corticosterone; IgA; laying hen; animal welfare assessment; behaviour; human intervention; marine mammal; cetacean; management; stranding; wildlife
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Summary

This Special Issue provides a collection of recent research and reviews that investigate many areas of welfare assessment, such as novel approaches and technologies used to evaluate the welfare of farmed, captive, or wild animals. Research in this Special Issue includes welfare assessment related to pilot whales, finishing pigs, commercial turkey flocks, and dairy goats; the use of sensors or wearable technologies, such as heart rate monitors to assess sleep in dairy cows, ear tag sensors, and machine learning to assess commercial pig behaviour; non-invasive measures, such as video monitoring of behaviour, computer vision to analyse video footage of red foxes, remote camera traps of free-roaming wild horses, infrared thermography of effort and sport recovery in sport horses; telomere length and regulatory genes as novel biomarkers of stress in broiler chickens; the effect of environment on growth physiology and behaviour of laboratory rare minnows and housing system on anxiety, stress, fear, and immune function of laying hens; and discussions of natural behaviour in farm animal welfare and maintaining health, welfare, and productivity of commercial pig herds.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (260 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-0365-5561-4
9783036555614
9783036555621

Access

Open Access