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Animal behavior and animal welfare

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1991
Summary The value of behavioral techniques in assessing animal welfare, and in particular assessing the psychological well being of animals, is reviewed. Using cats and horses as examples, 3 behavioral methods are presented: (1) comparison of behavior patterns and time budgets; (2) choice tests; and (3) operant conditioning. The behaviors of intact and
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Animal Research (See Animal Ethics; Animal Welfare; Animal Cloning)

2021
The use of animals in scientific research appears to be almost as old as the beginning of medicine. For example, vivisection is already reported in the Corpus Hippocraticum (4th to 1st century BC) and by Galen (2nd century). The use of animals was strongly revived in the Renaissance.
Henk ten Have, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves   +1 more
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Animated robots and robotic animation

Proceedings of 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002
Summary form only given. We are interested in physical robots that move in the physical world and in simulated creatures that move in the virtual world. We have built a series of physical robots that include one-legged hoppers, biped runners, a quadruped, and two kangaroo-like robots.
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CRISPR in Animals and Animal Models

2017
CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized the generation of transgenic animals. This system has demonstrated an unprecedented efficiency, multiplexability, and ease of use, thereby reducing the time and cost required for genome editing and enabling the production of animals with more extensive genetic modifications.
Ellen, Shrock, Marc, Güell
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Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1988
Animal liberationists tend to divide into two mutually antagonistic camps: animal welfarists, who share a utilitarian moral outlook, and animal rightists, who presuppose a structure of basic rights. However, the gap between these groups tends to be exaggerated by their allegiance to oversimplified versions of their favored moral frameworks.
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Animal’s People: Animal, Animality, Animalisation

2017
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People tells the story of Animal, an animal who is human. He is a severely disabled boy living in a fictional city modelled on Bhopal in India. Animal has a twisted back that forces him to walk on all fours as if an animal, and this chapter reads his disfigured body as a symbol of an exploited body politic, an interrogation of ...
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Animation/Re-animation

Theory, Culture & Society, 2006
10.1177/026327640602300261 ; Theory, Culture and Society ; 23 ; 2-3 ...
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When is an animal, not an animal?

Journal of Biological Education, 1981
The concepts of ‘animal’ held by some New Zealand primary, secondary, and tertiary students were explored using both an interview and multiplechoice survey approach. The results indicate that many students of all ages have a restricted concept of ‘animal’ compared with that of a biologist. The implications of these results for teaching are discussed.
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ANIMAL RESEARCH FOR ANIMALS

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1983
B H, Ewald, D A, Gregg
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Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights

2010
Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights. The book presents Bernard Lonergan's theory about consciousness and the operations of the mind-a theory about two types of knowing and desiring: one shared by humans and animals, and the ...
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