The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals
This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth. Addressing animal welfare, we do not often think of invertebrates; in fact we seldom consider them to be deserving of welfare evaluation. And yet we should
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Claudio Carere Jennifer Mather Editors
The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals
Animal Welfare
Series Editor Clive Phillips School of Veterinary Science University of Queensland Gatton, QLD Australia Advisory Editors Marieke Cassia Gartner Atlanta, GA, USA Karen F. Mancera Mexico City, Mexico Fiona C. Rioja-Lang Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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Claudio Carere • Jennifer Mather Editors
The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals
Editors Claudio Carere Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Ichthyogenic Experimental Marine Centre (CISMAR) University of Tuscia Tarquinia, Viterbo, Italy
Jennifer Mather Department of Psychology University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
ISSN 1572-7408 Animal Welfare ISBN 978-3-030-13946-9 ISBN 978-3-030-13947-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13947-6
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Editor Fiona C. Rioja-Lang deceased in 2019 at the time of publication
My Vote for the “Invertebrates”
At the time when I was a young student and quite some time beyond, most biologists were convinced: if you can’t even know what your best friend is thinking and feeling, how can you ever know what is going on in an animal? It was considered unscientific for such dogmatic reasons to seriously ask a question regarding the mental life, the thinking and feeling of an animal. You could not hope to find answers but would rather get lost, if you dared to delve into this black hole. Among widespread beliefs and attitudes were the following: (1) that we can never say anything about feelings or thoughts of animals; (2) that man is too distinct from
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