Extending animal welfare science to include wild animals
Browning, H.
& Veit, W.
(2021).
Extending animal welfare science to include wild animals.
Animal Sentience,
7(20).
https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1675
& Veit, W.
(2021).
Extending animal welfare science to include wild animals.
Animal Sentience,
7(20).
https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1675
Ng’s (2016) target article built on his earlier work advocating a science of welfare biology (Ng 1995). Although there were problems with the models proposed in Ng’s original paper regarding the balance of pleasure and suffering for wild animals, his call for a science of wild animal welfare was a sound one. This does not require a new discipline but just an extension of the existing frameworks and methods of animal welfare science to include wild animals.