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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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...