The Biology of Animal Stress: Basic Principles and Implications for Animal Welfare

This book brings together a range of perspectives from biomedical research (including human health and animal models of human stress) on stress and welfare, and assesses new approaches to conceptualising and alleviating stress. The subjects of stress and animal welfare are currently attracting immense interest.  

Table of Contents: Biological Response to Stress: Implications for Animal Welfare; Some Issues in the Interpretation of Behavioural Responses to Stress; Neoroendocrine Responses to Stress; The Metabolic Consequences of Stress: Targets for Stress and Priority of Nutrient Use; Immune System Response to Stress; Hands-on and Hands-off Measurement of Stress; Accumulation and Long-Term Effects of Stress in Fish; Chronic Intermittent Stress: A Model for the Study of Long Term Stressors; Quantifying Some Responses to Pain as a Stressor; Multiple Factors Controlling Behaviour: Implications for Stress and Welfare; Chronic Social Stress: Studies in Nonhuman Primates; Consequences of Stress During Development; Early Developmental Influences of Experience on Behaviour, Temperament, and Stress; Genetic Selection to Reduce Stress in Animals; Human-Animal Interactions and Animal Stress; Alleviating Stress in Zoo Animals with Environmental Enrichment; Understanding the Role of Stress in Animal Welfare: Practical Considerations.

384 pages. Hardback end eBook. 

ISBN: Hardback: 9780851993591, eISBN : 978-0-85199-930-2

Price: Hardback & eBook: £112.99