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720 1 |a Mattiello, Silvana  |4 aut 
245 0 0 |a Positive Aspects of Animal Welfare 
260 |b MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  |c 2020 
300 |a 1 online resource (180 p.) 
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520 |a Comfort during resting, half-closed eyes when feeding on highly palatable feed, or vigorous tail wagging when being brushed are some of the positive indicators that can be used to evaluate the quality of the environment in which domestic animals live. This has been a radical shift from the past as, until now, the welfare assessment on farms has meant assessing negative indicators, namely the number of lame animals, presence of lesions, or frequency of agonistic behaviours. However, the latest research confirms that the absence of a problem or of suffering does not necessarily imply that the animals are experiencing a good life and that their level of welfare is high. To guarantee high welfare standards, animals should experience positive conditions that allow them to live a "life worth living", and positive indicators are needed to identify these conditions. This Special Issue focuses on the development and validation of indicators of positive welfare or on the refinement of the existing ones, as well as on the identification of suitable living conditions for providing positive welfare to farmed and companion animals. 
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546 |a English 
650 7 |a Biology, life sciences  |2 bicssc 
653 |a animal welfare 
653 |a arousal 
653 |a behaviour 
653 |a buffaloes 
653 |a calves 
653 |a cat behavior 
653 |a cattle 
653 |a circadian rhythm 
653 |a contact 
653 |a critical review 
653 |a dairy cows 
653 |a ear posture 
653 |a emotional state 
653 |a emotions 
653 |a enrichment 
653 |a eye white 
653 |a farm size 
653 |a farmer attitudes 
653 |a farmer knowledge 
653 |a Felis catus 
653 |a five domains 
653 |a free elicitation narrative interviewing 
653 |a free-farrowing 
653 |a goats 
653 |a happiness 
653 |a housing 
653 |a immunoglobulin A 
653 |a maternal care 
653 |a mother-offspring 
653 |a nosing 
653 |a observer reliability 
653 |a organic 
653 |a phonetics 
653 |a piglet 
653 |a pigs 
653 |a positive affective engagement 
653 |a positive animal welfare 
653 |a positive animal welfare indicators 
653 |a positive emotions 
653 |a positive indicators 
653 |a positive welfare 
653 |a qualitative behaviour assessment (QBA) 
653 |a qualitative research 
653 |a quality of life 
653 |a recognition 
653 |a ruminants 
653 |a saliva 
653 |a sheep 
653 |a sow 
653 |a term list 
653 |a valence 
653 |a welfare 
653 |a welfare assessment protocol 
793 0 |a DOAB Library. 
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856 4 0 |u https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2190  |7 0  |z Open Access: DOAB, download the publication