The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carere, Claudio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mather, Jennifer (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Animal Welfare, 18
• Subjects: Invertebrates.; Bioethics.; Animal welfare.; Neurosciences.; Entomology.; Research-Moral and ethical aspects.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Research Ethics.

This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth. Addressing animal welfare, we do not often think of invertebrates; in fact we seldom consider them to be deserving of welfare evaluation. And yet we should. Welfare is a broad concern for any animal t...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Why a volume on invertebrate welfare?
• Chapter 2: Invertebrates and humans: attitudes, ethics and policy
• Chapter 3: Insects in captivity - contexts create welfare dilemmas
• Chapter 4: Welfare of managed honey bees
• Chapter 5: Spider welfare
• Chapter 6: Coral and Cnidarian Welfare in a Changing Sea
• Chapter 7: Assessing the potential for pain in crustaceans and other invertebrates
• Chapter 8: Enrichment for captive cephalopods
• Chapter 9: Cephalopod welfare, biological and regulatory aspects: a EU experience
• Chapter 10: Consider the individual: personality and welfare in invertebrates.