Animal Welfare

[b]Animal Welfare[/b] [b]An Accessible Overview of the Concept of Sentience Throughout the Animal Kingdom and Why It Matters to Humans[/b] [i]Animal Welfare[/i] explores the concept of sentience and the development of sentient minds throughout the animal kingdom. The work provides improved definitions and analysis of the ideas of sentience, cognition, and consciousness, along with evidence of advanced mental formulation in birds, fish, and invertebrates. Considerations between humans and animals are also discussed, such as outcome-based ethics in relation to humans’ duties of care and the rights and wrongs of domestication. The work is divided into three parts and covers …