ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2019
What is animal happiness?
Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Species-independent analysis and identification of emotional animal vocalizations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Explainable classification of goat vocalizations using convolutional neural networks.PloS one · 2025Article
- A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare.Biology letters · 2025Article
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- An Interactive Feeder to Induce and Assess Emotions from Vocalisations of Chickens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Behavioral responses to artificial insemination and the effect of positive reinforcement training.PloS one · 2024Article
- BovineTalk: machine learning for vocalization analysis of dairy cattle under the negative affective state of isolation.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Near and Dear? If animal welfare concepts do not apply to species at a great phylogenetic distance from humans, what concepts might serve as alternatives?Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Review
- Circadian rhythms and diurnal patterns in the feed intake behaviour of growing-finishing pigs.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Finnish and Swedish riding school pupils' motivation towards participation in non-riding education.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Today, we see a growing concern for the quality of life of nonhuman animals and an accompanying call for viable means of assessing how well animals thrive. Past research focused on minimizing negatives such as stress, while more recent endeavors strive to promote positives such as happiness. But what is animal happiness? Although often mentioned, the term lacks a clear definition. With recent advances in the study of animal emotion, current interest into positive rather than negative experiences, and the call for captive and domesticated animals to have good lives, the time is ripe to examine the concept of animal happiness. We draw from the human and animal literature to delineate a concept of animal happiness and propose how to assess it. We argue that animal happiness depends on how an individual feels generally-that is, a typical level of affect.
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