Perception of animal sentience by Brazilian and French citizens: The case of sheep welfare and sentience. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The study compared the perception of ordinary citizens from Curitiba, Brazil (OB) and Clermont-Ferrand, France (OF), as well as OB, Brazilian veterinarians (VB), biologists (BB) and animal scientists (AB), concerning animal welfare and sentience.
Priscilla Regina Tamioso +4 more
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Philos Compass, 2022 Abstract ‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to the capacity to have subjective experiences with a positive or negative valence, such as pain or pleasure. We review recent controversies regarding sentience in fish and invertebrates and consider the deep methodological ...
Browning H, Birch J.
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Perceptions of Farm Animal Sentience and Suffering: Evidence from the BRIC Countries and the United States [PDF]
Animals, 2022 In this study, we examined how beliefs about farm animal sentience and their suffering vary across culture and demographic characteristics. A total of N = 5027) questionnaires were administered in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the USA.
Fernando Mata +2 more
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Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is challenging, since these properties are private and cannot be observed directly.
Sergey Budaev +3 more
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Demographics Regarding Belief in Non-Human Animal Sentience and Emotional Empathy with Animals: A Pilot Study among Attendees of an Animal Welfare Symposium [PDF]
Animals, 2018 Attitudes to animals are linked to beliefs about their ability to experience pain and suffering, their cognition, and their sentience. Education and awareness-raising play a pivotal role in increasing society’s consideration of non-human animal ...
Amelia Cornish +3 more
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Horses are worthy of care: Horse sector participants’ attitudes towards animal sentience, welfare, and well-being [PDF]
Animal WelfareOrganisations for which sentient animals are central to the business model need to demonstrate the safeguarding of animal welfare and well-being. This requires providing positive experiences for animals which is critical to maintaining the social licence
Julie M Fiedler +3 more
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Animal Sentience: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading?
Animals, 2012 The science of animal sentience underpins the entire animal welfare movement. Demonstrating objectively what animals are capable of is key to achieving a positive change in attitudes and actions towards animals, and a real, sustainable difference for ...
Helen Proctor
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Searching for Animal Sentience: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature
Animals, 2013 Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfare movement. In this review, we examined what is being explored and discussed, regarding animal sentience, within the scientific literature.
Amelia R. Cornish +2 more
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Animal sentience and the precautionary principle [PDF]
Animal Sentience, 2017 In debates about animal sentience, the precautionary principle is often invoked. The idea is that when the evidence of sentience is inconclusive, we should “give the animal the benefit of the doubt” or “err on the side of caution” in formulating animal ...
Birch, Jonathan
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Teaching & Learning Guide for: Animal Sentience. [PDF]
Philos Compass, 2022 Browning H, Birch J.
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