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Lecture 9 Flashcards

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What is the Brambell Report?

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“We accept that animals can experience emotions such as rage, fear, apprehension, frustration and pleasure.”

  • Freedom for fear and distress by ensuring conditions that avoid mental suffering.
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What is the definition of fear (state)?

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An emotional response to the perception of immediate danger.

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What is the definition of fearfulness (trait)?

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A characteristic of an individual, susceptibility to fear.

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How is fear experienced within different individuals?

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  • All individuals can experience fear
  • Some individuals are more fearful than others
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What are the two types of stress and what do they mean?

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Eustress: good - motivates us
Distress: bad
* some stress is unavoidable
* manageable levels can increase resilience

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What is anxiety?

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A reaction to a potential threat

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What is frustration?

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An inability to achieve a desired goal. Can result in anger, annoyance, disappointment

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What does fear and anxiety equal?

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stressors
* primary emotions affecting animal welfare
* Responses: physiological and behavioural reactions - preparing the animal to respond
* Individuals vary in fearfulness: affected by genes & experience

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What controls the stress response?

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Sympathetic Nervous System / Neuroendocrine

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What are the two main responses (axes) for the stress response?

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  • Sympathetic - Adrenal- Medullary (SAM)
    - Fight or Flight: epinephrine, norepinephrine (happens immediately)
  • Hypothalamic- Pituitary- Adrenal (HPA)
    - CRH -> ACTH -> Glucocorticoid (eg. cortisol in humans and pigs, corticosterone in poultry and rodents)
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What is the Sympathetic Adrenal Medullary (SAM)?

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Rapid neural response:
* Adrenaline (from adrenal medulla)
* Noradrenaline (adrenal medulla and sympathetic nerves)

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What are different effects of the sympathetic division on our bodies?

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  • Dilates pupil
  • No effect on tear glands
  • Weak stimulation of salivary flow
  • Accelerates heart, constricts arterioles
  • Dilates bronchi
  • Inhibits stomach motility and secretion, inhibits pancreas and adrenals
  • Inhibits intestinal motility
  • Relaxes bladder
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What are different effects of the parasympathetic division on our bodies?

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  • Constricts pupil
  • Stimulates tear glands
  • Strong stimulation of salivary flow
  • Inhibits heart, dilates arterioles
  • Constricts bronchi
  • Stimulates stomach motility and secretion, stimulates pancreas
  • Stimulates intestinal motility
  • Contracts bladder
  • Stimulates erection
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What is fear and what is the function of fear?

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  • Fear is a negative emotion that is adaptive: fear responses protect the animal from injury.
  • Function: animals in the wild benefit from fear. Increased awareness/vigilance, protection from/avoidance of predation
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WHat are 3 behavioural responses to fear?

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  • Aggression
  • Avoidance/escape
  • Freezing
    Stress response provides energy to cope
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What is the difference for fear in domectic environments?

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Fear is less adaptive in domestic environments

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What are the two types of fear and what are some examples of issues they cause in animals?

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  • Acute fear: poultry piling, claw injuries, suffocation
  • Chronic fear, anxiety: reduced growth, feed conversion
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How do intensive systems negatively effect stress levels in animals?

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  • Controlled, predictable environment - leads to overreaction
  • Tried not to mix pigs or move pigs, however, created an overreaction when something did need to happen
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What are some consenquences of fear (acute and chronic) in domestic animals?

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  • Energy wastage, reduced growth
  • Delayed maturation
  • Poor reproduction
  • Handling stress, injury
  • Injury, pain, weak immunity
  • Increased death loss/disease susceptibility
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What is the Novel Object Test (NOT)

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  • Behavioural test
  • Assesses fear and exploratory behaviour directed towards a ‘novel object’
  • Animals tested singly or in groups
  • ‘Novel object’ is introduced into the centre of the pen
  • Less fearful animals are faster to approach and make contact
  • Measurements: latency of approach (time) and number of contacts or number of individuals that makes contact
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What is the Human Approach Test (HAT)?

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  • Behavioural test
  • Measures level of fear associated with humans
  • Handler enter the pen and remains stationary
  • Less fearful animals are faster to approach and make contact - problems with defensiveness, aggression (attacks) or not caring (won’t approach)
  • Measurements
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What is the Novel Arena test (NAT)?

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  • AKA ‘Open Field Test’
  • Measure fear and exploratory behaviour in a novel arena
  • Animal enters the pen nd is observed over set time period
  • Rodents’entry into the centre squares indicates lack of fear (they like to be near wall)
  • Increased defecation rate: increase rate under stress
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How did the fear of people assessed in dairy cows affect them?

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  • Fear responses reduced with increased contact between stockperson and cows
  • Introverted, confident stockpersons had calmer, more productive cows
  • Presence of averisive handler (who hit or used a prod on cows over a 5-day period) increased the residual milk (milk not collected at milking) - she wasn’t delivering as much milk with aversive handler
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What is vigilence behaviour in dairy cows?

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  • evolved for detection and avoidance of predators
  • now used to measure fear
  • Time spent ‘vigilant’ (head up/not eating)
  • in novel location, in presenceof a dog, with aversive handler
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What are other behavioural tests for measuring fear?

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Tonic immobility in poultry
* ‘death feigning’ or ‘playing possum’
* parasympathetic response
* flipping chickens over (freeze)
Startle/freeze response
* time to resume activity following startle (e.g. loud noise)
Eye white in cattle
Elevated plus maze
* Exploration of open maze arms

26
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What drug is the elevated plus maze used for?

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Used in testing of anxiolytic (anxiety reducing) drugs. e.g. diazepam

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What are some physiological measures of fear and stress?

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  • Respiration rate
  • Heart rate (BPM)
  • Epinephrine, norepinephrine (SAM)
  • ACTH, Cortisol (HPA)
  • CPK (CK): creatine kinase in blood - released from muscle following strain or bruising
  • Blood lactate: physical exertion, product of anaerobic glycolysis
  • Glucose: in blood, glycogen: in muscle or liver
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What is cortisol and why can it be hard to interpret?

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Most commonly used physiological measure of ‘welfare’.
Results are inconsistent because:
* levels are not constant: follows “diurnal rhythm”
* increases in response to excitement and stress
* different effects of acute vs chronic stress
* high individual variation - associated with temperament
* sampling process causes stress - affecting results

29
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How does cortisol levels change with dehorning?

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  • dehorning with no anaesthetic caused high cortisol levels
  • dehorning with anaesthetic caused same cortisol levels as just handling
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How does stress (both long and short term) affect meat quality?

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Acute stress:
* increase temperature, lower pH
* lighter colour, increased drip loss
* leads to PSE meat (pale, soft, exudative) in pork
Longer-term stress - fatigue
* depletes energy stores in muscle
* leads to DFD meat (dark, firm, dry) in cattle

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How do we alleviate fear and stress?

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Use both adapting the nevironment and changing the animal:
* environmental enrichment: reduce neophobia (fear of unusual things
* regular human interaction: positive handling
* selective breeding: cull “wild” or fearful animals

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