Animal welfare policy: Implementation in the context of wildlife research-policy review and discussion of fundamental issues

ILAR Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 312-334

  Paul, Ellen ^a   Sikes, Robert S ^b,c   Beaupre, Steven J ^d,e   Wingfield, John C ^f,g  

^a Ornithological Council   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^c American Society of Mammalogists   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^e American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal care committee; Animal experimentation; Animal oversight; Animal welfare; Animals; Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC); Wild; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ETHICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; VERTEBRATE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL CARE COMMITTEES; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 85015329123     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: 19306180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar/ilv073     Document Type: Article

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