Overview
- Takes animal welfare into a wholly new and challenging dimension
- Provides essays across various taxa
- Illustrates how and why welfare should be achieved and formally anchored
- Shares cutting-edge findings, helping readers understand invertebrates in care
Part of the book series: Animal Welfare (AWNS, volume 18)
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About this book
We have previously relegated invertebrates to the category ‘things’ and did not worry about their treatment. New research suggest that some invertebrates such as cephalopods and crustaceans can have pain and suffering, might also have consciousness and awareness. Also, good welfare is going to mean different things to spiders, bees, corals, etc. This book is taking animal welfare in a very different direction. Academics and students of animal welfare science, those who keep invertebrates for scientific research or in service to the goals of humans, as well as philosophers will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Reviews
“This volume brings a useful and sophisticated perspective on how the psychophysical wellbeing of invertebrates should be considered, managed and accomplished. When people think of animal welfare, mammals, maybe birds, spring to mind. We do not think of invertebrates, as we seldom consider they are deserving of welfare attention. This book tells us that we should.” (Enrico Alleva and Daniela Santucci, Animal Behaviour, Vol. 167, September, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Claudio Carere, Department of Ecological and Biological Science, Ichthyogenic Experimental Marine Centre (CISMAR), University of Tuscia, Tarquinia (Viterbo), Italy
Jennifer A. Mather, Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals
Editors: Claudio Carere, Jennifer Mather
Series Title: Animal Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13947-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13946-9Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13949-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13947-6Published: 02 July 2019
Series ISSN: 1572-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Invertebrates, Bioethics, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics, Neurosciences, Entomology, Research Ethics