Key Questions in Animal Behaviour and Welfare

A Study and Revision Guide

Paul A. Rees

• Publisher: CAB International
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781789248975
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789248999
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

An understanding of animal behaviour and welfare is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, animal welfare, animal behaviour, psychology and zoo biology. This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which animal behaviour and welfare are an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced - and grouped into 10 major topic areas: 1. Foundations and history of animal behaviour and welfare 2. Basic concepts and mechanisms in behaviour 3. Biological basis of behaviour 4. Learning, memory and training 5. Territoriality, navigation and migration 6 Animal cognition and communication 7. Behavioural ecology and social behaviour 8. Measuring, recording and analysing animal behaviour and welfare 9. Animal exploitation and welfare 10 Animal rights, ethics and law The book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of terms used in the study of animal behaviour and welfare, methods of recording behaviour and assessing welfare, the physiology of behaviour, learning, memory, cognition, behavioural ecology, animal rights and much more. Many of the questions require students to use their knowledge to interpret information provided in the form of graphs, data or photographs.

1 Foundations and History of Animal Behaviour and Welfare

This chapter contains questions about the origins of the studies of animal behaviour and animal welfare, their historical development and the roles of important historical figures and their publications.

Foundation

1.1f Which of the following is the most accurate definition of the term ethology?

a. It is the study of animal behaviour

b. It is the study of animal behaviour in the laboratory

c. It is the study of the behaviour of animals in their natural environment

d. It is an alternate to the term ‘experimental psychology’

1.2f Which of the following are considered to be the founders of modern ethology?

a. Patrick Bateson and Richard Dawkins

b. Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen

c. Marian Dawkins and Konrad Lorenz

d. Nikolaas Tinbergen and John Krebs

1.3f It is possible to study and manipulate animal behaviour without a complete understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved. For example, an ape can be trained to cooperate with medical procedures such as providing a blood sample without the trainer or the veterinary surgeon involved understanding the physiological mechanisms involved (Fig. 1.1). Such an approach treats the animal as a

a. ‘blue box’

b. ‘white box’

c. ‘red box’

d. ‘black box’

Fig. 1.1.

1.4f Professor Timothy Clutton-Brock, of the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, is famous for his long-term field studies of

a. red deer and meerkats

b. grey wolves and capuchin monkeys

c. red foxes and Asian elephants

d. mountain gorillas and European badgers

1.5f An animal’s behaviour develops under the influence of its

a. genes only

b. environment only

c. genes and physical environment

d. genes and physical and biological environment

1.6f Who, in a book published in 1859, considered whether the behavioural traits of animals could evolve by natural selection?

a. Richard Owen

b. Charles Darwin

c. John Wray (Ray)

d. Georges Cuvier

1.7f The school of psychology which explains behaviour only in terms of observable stimuli, muscular movements and glandular secretions is known as

a. behaviourism

b. cognitive psychology

c. gestalt psychology

d. psychoanalysis

1.8f The science that attempts to explain social behaviour in terms of evolution is called

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Author
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• How to use this book
• 1 Foundations and History of Animal Behaviour and Welfare
• 2 Basic Concepts and Mechanisms in Behaviour
• 3 Biological Basis of Behaviour
• 4 Learning, Memory and Training
• 5 Territoriality, Navigation and Migration
• 6 Animal Cognition and Communication
• 7 Behavioural Ecology and Social Behaviour
• 8 Measuring, Recording and Analysing Animal Behaviour and Welfare
• 9 Animal Exploitation and Welfare
• 10 Animal Rights, Ethics and Law
• 11 Answers
• References
• Back Cover