Updating animalwelfare thinking: Moving beyond the “five freedoms” towards “A lifeworth living”

Animals

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Mellor, David J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal welfare management; Barren environments; Enrichment; Five domains; Five freedoms; Lives worth living; Negative experiences; Positive experiences; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962599485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20762615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ani6030021     Document Type: Article

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