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Animal play and animal welfare
Suzanne D E Held,Marek Špinka +1 more
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In this paper, the authors review evidence on four aspects of the play-welfare relationship: play indicates the absence of fitness threats, play acts as a reward and flags up the presence of opioid-mediated pleasurable emotional experiences; play brings immediate psychological benefits and long-term fitness and health benefits, and thus improves current and future welfare; and play is socially contagious and therefore capable of spreading good welfare in groups.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 398 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Animal Welfare (journal) & Welfare state.read more
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Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living”
TL;DR: An up-to-date characterisation of the principal features of animal welfare, expressed largely in non-technical terms, shows that the Five Freedoms do not capture the more nuanced knowledge of the biological processes that is germane to understanding animal welfare and which is now available to guide its management.
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The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig I: biological factors
Kenneth M.D. Rutherford,Emma M. Baxter,Richard B. D’Eath,Simon P. Turner,Gareth Arnott,Rainer Roehe,Birgitte Ask,Peter Sandøe,V. A. Moustsen,F. Thorup,Sandra Edwards,P. Berg,Alistair Lawrence +12 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that, in a number of ways, large litter size is a risk factor for decreased animal welfare in pig production and possible biological approaches to mitigating health and welfare issues associated with large litters are being implemented.
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Indicators of positive and negative emotions and emotional contagion in pigs.
TL;DR: It is suggested that pigs might be sensitive to emotional contagion, which could have implications for the welfare of group-housed pigs and the process of emotional contagions merit further research.
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The neurobiology of social play and its rewarding value in rats
TL;DR: In sum, social play behaviour is the result of coordinated activity in a network of corticolimbic structures, and its monoamine, opioid and endocannabinoid innervation.
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Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for the neurobiological analysis of affect is presented, based on the concepts of affective neuroscience and affective operating systems, and subjectivity.
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The emotional brain.
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Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare.
Alain Boissy,Gerhard Manteuffel,Margit Bak Jensen,Randi Oppermann Moe,Berry M. Spruijt,Linda J. Keeling,Christoph Winckler,Björn Forkman,Ivan Dimitrov,Jan Langbein,Morten Bakken,Isabelle Veissier,Arnaud Aubert +12 more
TL;DR: Play, affiliative behaviors and some vocalizations appear to be the most promising convenient indicators for assessing positive experiences in laboratory and farm animals under commercial conditions.
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Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals.
TL;DR: Here, some fundamental topics regarding pleasure mechanisms and explicitly compare humans and animals are surveyed and the relation of pleasure to happiness is compared.