Program animal welfare: Using behavioral and physiological measures to assess the well-being of animals used for education programs in zoos

Baird, Bonnie A.; Kuhar, Christopher W.; Lukas, Kristen E.; Amendolagine, Laura; Fuller, Grace; Nemet, James; Willis, Mark A.; Schook, Mandi W.

doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2015.12.004

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“…Supporting a lack of negative effect, Baird et al (2016) found no direct welfare issues, measured by behaviour and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGM) in armadillos used as education animals. However, they found the overall amount of handling that an animal experienced (for education programs or for husbandry) had a positive correlation with FGM.…”

Section: The Use Of Animals In Education Interactive Exhibits and Showsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Regular handling and feeding of animals, starting early in life promotes better human animal interactions (e.g. cattle: Jago et al 1999;chickens: Jones, 1993;rats: Cloutier et al, 2012;rabbits: Podberscek et al, 1991; red-tailed hawks: Baird et al 2016), and may make the animals more suitable as candidates for outreach or petting zoos. However, too much human contact, as is often the case during hand-rearing, can lead to imprinting on humans, inability to integrate successfully with conspecifics, development of stereotypies, and problems with successful reproduction (e.g.…”

Section: The Role Of Animals: Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The 24/7 approach to promoting optimal welfare for captive wild animals

Brando

Buchanan‐Smith

2018

Behavioural Processes

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We have an ethical responsibility to provide captive animals with environments that allow them to experience good welfare. Husbandry activities are often scheduled for the convenience of care staff working within the constraints of the facility, rather than considering the biological and psychological requirements of the animals themselves. The animal welfare 24/7 across the lifespan concept provides a holistic framework to map features of the animal's life cycle, taking into account their natural history, in relation to variations in the captive environment, across day and night, weekdays, weekends, and seasons. In order for animals to have the opportunity to thrive, we argue the need to consider their lifetime experience, integrated into the environments we provide, and with their perspective in mind. Here, we propose a welfare assessment tool based upon 14 criteria, to allow care staff to determine if their animals' welfare needs are met. We conclude that animal habitat management will be enhanced with the use of integrated technologies that provide the animals with more opportunities to engineer their own environments, providing them with complexity, choice and control.

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Section: The Use Of Animals In Education Interactive Exhibits and Showsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: The Role Of Animals: Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 24/7 approach to promoting optimal welfare for captive wild animals

Brando

Buchanan‐Smith

2018

Behavioural Processes

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“…If animal science degrees adopt an "animal-centered" education approach, what could we expect to change? This work is already being explored in some zoos, with a recognition that some animals are more tolerant of being "on-exhibit" (79,80) than others, and changing zoo management in response to these individual needs. This might work in a variety of ways.…”

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confidence: 99%

Discipline-Based Education Research for Animal Welfare Science

MacKay

2020

Front. Vet. Sci.

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Animal welfare science features interdisciplinary and collaborative working across fields, spanning behavioural ecology, psychology, veterinary sciences, economics, and fundamental biology. However, education research is not yet prevalent within the animal welfare literature. In a Web of Science topic search there were 188 papers which specifically discussed or explored how to teach animal welfare from 1978 to 2017. Of these, only 34% (n = 61) specifically focused on instructional design or pedagogical research, and these were predominantly within veterinary education (57%). Despite this, the literature is in broad agreement that animal welfare education is an important topic that should be done well. Within the UK, there were a possible 586 animal-related courses within Universities College Admissions Service database for potential students to choose from, highlighting the significance of robust and considered educational practice. The current gaps identified in the literature were discussion of hidden curriculums outside of veterinary degrees, animal-centered education, the blueprinting of assessment, and authentic assessment. Therefore, this review proposes that animal welfare scientists interested in education consider discipline based educational research (DBER) practices, and engage more fully with the educational research literature. A key component of DBER is the recognition that specialist knowledge needs to be taught by specialists, and so it is important that animal welfare scientists begin to access educational research too.

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“…In addition, the appearance of a given welfare assessment system depends on whether the goal is to certify or control the level of welfare on specific farm, to evaluate the welfare in different production systems, or to serve as an advisory tool that allows the farmer to identify, prevent or solve welfare problems on his/her farm (Whaytt et al, 2003). Baird et al, (2016) stated that providing adequate substrate is a simple and practical step to ensuring better welfare in farm animals.…”

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Dairy cattle welfare in India: A review

Kumar

Kamboj

Chandra

et al. 2017

AJDFR

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Animal welfare means how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives; it is based on 'five freedoms' and 'four principles' of animal welfare. Dairy cattle are considered as sentient beings due to which husbandry should be provided as per their needs. As cattle and human beings are intrinsically connected to each other, protection of cattle from diseases and unnecessary suffering should become prime responsibility of human. Welfare of dairy cattle cannot be measured directly, as is multidimensional in nature and can be measured by various indicators which are either direct or indirect. In this review we try to analyze dairy cattle welfare, their indicators and their assessment.

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Program animal welfare: Using behavioral and physiological measures to assess the well-being of animals used for education programs in zoos

Cited by 47 publications

References 63 publications

The 24/7 approach to promoting optimal welfare for captive wild animals

The 24/7 approach to promoting optimal welfare for captive wild animals

Discipline-Based Education Research for Animal Welfare Science

Dairy cattle welfare in India: A review

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