assessing welfare

Question 1

welfare’s involvement in education

Answer 1

animals exhibiting natural behaviours will help to educate the public about their natural habitat

Question 2

welfare’s involvement in conservation

Answer 2

populations must be fit for breeding and possibly re-introduction

Question 3

welfare’s involvement in research

Answer 3

healthy animals exhibiting natural behaviour can provide valuable information on how their wild counterparts live and behave

Question 4

welfare’s involvement in recreation

Answer 4

visitors will have a better experience (and so more likely to return) if they see high standards of zoo animal welfare + will boost the zoo’s reputation

Question 5

subjective measurements

Answer 5

relying on human judgement + observation (e.e. assessment of animals looking stressed)

Question 6

objective measurements

Answer 6

quantifiable, impartial, and recorded with a diagnostic instrument (e.e. measuring stress hormones, cortisol, in faecal samples)

Question 7

qualitative data

Answer 7

non-numerical observational data (e.e. guessing how much time is spent performing a behaviour)

Question 8

quantitative data

Answer 8

numerical data, which can be counted, measured and analysed (e.e. carrying out an activity budget ethogram)

Question 9

what types of data measures are the most reliable?

Answer 9

objective + quantitative

Question 10

ethogram

Answer 10

a catalogue of an animal’s behaviours

Question 11

activity budget

Answer 11

a record of the proportion of time an animal spends exhibiting each recorded behaviour