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Behavioral Research to Answer Questions about Animal Welfare

University of Illinois, Urbana 61801

Abstract

A research strategy designed to develop systematically the behavioral catalogues (ethograms) of domestic production animals is presented. Measurement scales, observational techniques and recording methods are discussed. Suggestions about how these behavioral measures may be used to resolve animal welfare problems are presented. The need for trained applied ethologists and for the allocation of research funds to increase our understanding of animal behavior, in general, and to use this knowledge to enhance the quality of life of production animals is emphasized.

¹ Preparation of this paper was supported, in part, by NSF BNS76-82029.

² I would like to acknowledge the critical comments of D. Brown, S. Curtis and J. McGlone, Dept. of Anim. Sci., Univ. of Illinois.

³ This paper was presented at the Symposium on "The Role of Animal Behavior in Agriculture," held at the Annu. Meet, of the ASAS, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, July, 1980.