Cognitive ethology, take three: Fascinating and frustrating questions about animal minds
Review of Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin
Why “good welfare” isn’t “good enough”: Minding animals and increasing our compassionate footprint
In this brief essay I take a broad perspective on the notion of unraveling welfare and consider animals living in different conditions ranging from caged individuals in laboratories and zoos to free-living or almost free-living wildlife. I’ll step outside of the laboratory because billions of animals are slaughtered for food in an industry that tortures […]
Cognitive ethology and the treatment of non-human animals: How matters of mind inform matters of welfare
Anthropocentric claims about the ways in which non-human animals (hereafter animals) interact in their social and non-social worlds are often used to influence decisions on how animals can or should be used by humans in various sorts of activities. Thus, the treatment of individuals is often tightly linked to how they are perceived with respect […]