Scientific evaluation of animal emotions: Brief history and recent New Zealand contributions

Abstract:Behavior is the fastest way of animal adaptation to changes that occur in its organism or in its habitat. This is a visible feature of animals. Therefore, veterinarians can use knowledge about animal behavior in many branches of veterinary practice and veterinary science. Knowledge of animal behavior can also be helpful in diagnostics in veterinary practice. In addition, knowledge of animal behavior can be applied in all animal treatment procedures, as well as in their restraint, animal examination, animal learning and training, animal tracking, feeding, reproduction and many other activities. Accommodation systems and all kinds of enrichment of living conditions are part of applied animal behavior science. Veterinarians must know how to prevent behavioral disorders and pathological forms of animal behavior, but also how to treat them. They also need to know how to apply knowledge about animal behavior to protect animal welfare. Applied animal behavior science can be applied to control game animals and pests in a more humane way as well as in conservation of species. There are many other examples of application of animal behavioral knowledge in veterinary practice, as it is presented in this paper.

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“…Emotions are not as noticeableas as behavior. Behavior is an indicator of emotions (Beausoleil et al, 2016).…”

Section: What Is Animal Behavior?mentioning

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Why Veterinarians Should Understand Animal Behavior

Vučinić¹,

Nenadović²,

Kovač³

et al. 2018

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Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 2

Cunningham

2022

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This is the second part of a two-part article presenting the theoretical and empirical case for nonhuman animal (hereafter, ‘animal’) spirituality. Part 1 discussed the relevance of evolutionary theory and species differences for understanding animals’ capacity to have spiritual experience, conceptual issues related to defining animal spirituality, and methodological considerations regarding analogical reasoning and animal-centered anthropomorphism as heuristic strategies in the study of animal spirituality. Issues related to the question of animal consciousness and the use of evolutionary panentheism as a philosophical/theological frame for theorizing about animal spirituality were discussed. Part 2 examines six biopsychosocial capabilities of animals that are building blocks of human spirituality—cognition, imagination, emotion, moral sense, personality, and value-life (Maslow’s phrase)—and proposes an ontic pluralism of animal spiritualities. Part 2 concludes with a discussion of the wide-ranging implications for human society of consciously accepting the possibility of animal spirituality and capacity to have spiritual experience.

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Scientific evaluation of animal emotions: Brief history and recent New Zealand contributions

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Why Veterinarians Should Understand Animal Behavior

Why Veterinarians Should Understand Animal Behavior

Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 2

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