| Course title | |||||
| 動物福祉論 [Animal Welfare] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01RN3273 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 武田 庄平, 竹村 勇司, 鈴木 馨 [TAKEDA Shohei, TAKEMURA Yuji, SUZUKI Kaoru] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| Animal welfare may be misunderstood as welfare for human using animals, such as animal therapy. Animal welfare is also apt to be confused with animal rights, but animal welfare is not necessarily the case of accepting animal’s rights. We have a responsibility to treat captive animals with consideration of welfare. In this course, each types of welfare for various kinds of captive animals, such as livestock, experimental animal, zoo animal, companion animal, working animal and wild animal in captivity, will be lectured. |
| Expected Learning |
| You can recognize that there exists many welfare types for each kinds of captivity, and understand the concrete way of welfare for each captive animals. |
| Course schedule |
|
Shohei Takeda, Comparative Psychology (Welfare for Zoo animals) In spite of their wild origin, many of zoo exhibited animals are hold in extreme artificial environment. It is important for zoo animals being hold and exhibited not in the human-viewed naturalistic environment but in that of affording to 1. The difference of views for animal and life, between Western and Eastern World. Establishment of Zoological garden. Function of Zoological garden. 2. Environmental enrichment for ensuring the Quality of Life (QOL) of captive animals. Kaoru Suzuki, Field Science Center (Welfare for experimental animal, wild animal, and household animal) The position of these animals in human society, characteristic will be explained to present key facts for their welfare. In addition, proper animal experiment and appropriate euthanasia will be explained. 1. Experimental animal 2. Wild animal 3. Household animal 4. Animal experiment, Euthanasia Yuji Takemura, Animal Science (Animal welfare of farm animals) This section provides students with welfare issues for farm animals. Learners are expected to make their own opinions on how to realize the welfare-based practice for animal production and consumption. Contents: 1. Development of animal welfare in farm animals (Part 1) 2. Development of animal welfare in farm animals (Part 2) 3. Welfare problems and solutions in the modern farm animal production system 4. Scientific methods for the assessment of animal welfare Final Examination: final day of the course |
| Prerequisites |
| There need no special knowledge. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| "Perspectives on the Study of Animal Welfare", Ueno & Takeda eds., Norin-Tokei Press, Tokyo, 2015 (in Japanese, 「動物福祉の現在」、上野・武田編、農林統計出版) |
| References |
| Will be introduced by each lecturer at the class. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| No. of attending the class must be 10 or more. Final grading will constitute of 30% for attending no. and 70% for final examination. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| Farm Animal, Household animal, Experimental animal, Zoo animal, Wild animal, Quality of life, Physiology, Behavior, Environmental enrichment, Psychological wellbeing |
| Office hours |
| E-mail to us: Takeda; takeda@cc.tuat.ac.jp, Takemura; takemura@cc.tuat.ac.jp, Suzuki; kaoru@cc.tuat.ac.jp |
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| Related URL |
| Takeda：http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~hikaku/takeda/index.html、Suzuki： http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~fswild/ |
| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 3/1/2018 1:50:06 PM |