Why "good welfare" isn't "good enough": Minding animals and increasing our compassionate footprint

Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bekoff, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal emotions; Animal minds; Animal welfare; Cognitive ethology; Compassionate footprint

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMAL WELLBEING; EMOTION; ETHOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 45749109390     PISSN: 18068774     EISSN: 18068774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5016/1806-8774.2008.v10pT1     Document Type: Review

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