%0 Journal Article
%T Naturalness and Animal Welfare
%A James Yeates
%J Archive of "Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI".
%D 2018
%R 10.3390/ani8040053
%X Many people feel that we should ensure that animals have natural lives and can perform natural behaviours. However, it is unclear what exactly we mean by ¡®natural¡¯ and how we can assess it scientifically. We might use naturalness to highlight possible suffering that needs looking into, as a rule of thumb about what is good for animals, and to establish a threshold for what is acceptable or unacceptable in how we affect animals. We can assess animals¡¯ naturalness in terms of how similar they are to their closest wild counterparts, both in scientific assessments and in decisions about how we care for animals
%K animal welfare
%K natural behaviour
%K naturalness
%K species-specific behaviour
%K wellbeing
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946137/