CARINE ELKHORAIBI, AMY ROBINSON-JUNKER, GINA ALVINO, AND LARRY CARBONE Institutional Animal Care and Use Program, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of California, San…
MELISSA BAIN AND C.A. TONY BUFFINGTON Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California, USA 4.1 Introduction Animals interact with their environments on a time constant…
ALEXANDER WEISS AND LAUREN M. ROBINSON Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria 9.1 Background and…
DAVID SHEPHERDSON AND KATHY CARLSTEAD Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA When it comes to maintaining mental health, or psychological well-being, zoo animal populations…
DANIEL M. WEARY University of British Columbia, Animal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 12.1 Introduction Suffering is a central issue of animal welfare,…
FRANKLIN D. MCMILLAN Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah, USA Few concepts exhibit a wider disparity between their importance for well-being and their definitional clarity than distress. Despite its frequent…
JAMES W. YEATES Cats Protection, Haywards Heath, UK 7.1 Introduction Over the past two decades, the veterinary field has seen expanding awareness and discussions of animals’ quality of life (QOL)….
DEBRA F. HORWITZ Veterinary Behavior Consultations, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 1.1 Introduction The concept of mental health in animals has not necessarily been an important variable in understanding the animals…
IAN J.H. DUNCAN Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 3.1 Introduction The foundations for feelings to be considered as the basis for animal well-being or welfare…
