Ethics and invertebrates: a cephalopod perspective
| Autor: | Roland C. Anderson, Jennifer A. Mather |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Behavior
Animal biology Pain and suffering Ecology media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Pain Captivity Cognition Aquaculture Awareness Aquatic Science Animal Welfare biology.organism_classification Cephalopod Distress Cephalopoda Animal welfare Animals Learning Consciousness Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 75:119-129 |
| ISSN: | 1616-1580 0177-5103 |
| DOI: | 10.3354/dao075119 |
| Popis: | This paper first explores 3 philosophical bases for attitudes to invertebrates, Contractar- ian/Kantian, Utilitarian, and Rights-based, and what they lead us to conclude about how we use and care for these animals. We next discuss the problems of evaluating pain and suffering in inverte- brates, pointing out that physiological responses to stress are widely similar across the animal king- dom and that most animals show behavioral responses to potentially painful stimuli. Since cephalopods are often used as a test group for consideration of pain, distress and proper conditions for captivity and handling, we evaluate their behavioral and cognitive capacities. Given these capac- ities, we then discuss practical issues: minimization of their pain and suffering during harvesting for food; ensuring that captive cephalopods are properly cared for, stimulated and allowed to live as full a life as possible; and, lastly, working for their conservation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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