'Pleasures', 'pains' and animal welfare: Toward a natural history of affect

Animal Welfare

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 383-396

  Fraser, D ^a   Duncan, I J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect; Animal welfare; Emotion; Evolution; Fitness; Motivation; Suffering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000335844     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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