Farm animal welfare and food policy
Legislation has been the main policy approach for protecting the welfare of farm animals. The use of legislation raises issues such as whose preferences the legislation reflects and whether the preferences of some people in society should constrain the food consumption choices of others. The paper outlines a survey in Great Britain which sought to […]
Duiker food selection: Palatability trials using natural foods in the Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo
Abstract 10.1002/zoo.10021.abs Cafeteria-style palatability feeding trials were conducted with captive duikers in the Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo. Blue duikers (Cephalophus monticola; n = 3), and white-bellied duikers (C. leucogaster; n = 3), were offered unlimited amounts of paired foods in two experiments consisting of 20 feeding trials each. Five different foods, including fruits […]
Effectiveness of familiar kin and unfamiliar nonkin demonstrator rats in altering food choices of their observers
In a series of three experiments, we examined the prediction from formal theories of the evolution of social learning that, all else being equal, animals should be more likely to learn socially from familiar individuals or kin than from unfamiliar individuals or nonkin. In all three experiments, contrary to prediction, naïve Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, […]