Emerging Roles in Animal Socio-Cognition in Relation to Ethics, Behavior and Welfare
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2017) | Viewed by 397
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Interests: MSCs from domestic animal species; MSCs physiology and behavior for translational regenerative medicine; migration and proliferation of MSCs and role of Aquaporin (AQPs); MSCs, conditioned medium and microenvironment in physiological condition
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Dear Colleagues,
Animal welfare research in recent years has moved from an approach exclusively based on identifying and preventing poor welfare, expanding in knowledge to a behavioural approach focusing in particular on animal subjectivity and cognitive abilities. Therefore, gaining a better understanding of the cognitive abilities of animals, and their social behavior, from a physiological and behavioral point of view, centered on an animal ethics approach, is critical for progress in this field. In addition, until now, animal socio-cognition has always been investigated either in relation to animals’ abilities to achieve instructional goals, solve problems or ask for support from the human and through the old model of the dominance hierarchy paradigm.
It would be interesting to collect works about this topic from a modern perspective, in which social behavior and social cognition are explored through new perspectives, understanding the importance of familiar contexts, affiliative behaviors and social learning and their influences on welfare.
Alessandra Pelagalli
Francesco De Giorgio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal welfare
- animal subjectivity
- animal ethics
- animal behaviour
