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UFAW Conference: Recent advances in animal welfare science Vll

This webinar on the Animal welfare is a wide area of study that seeks to
provide advice and solutions for issues arising out of our own care, as well as those
related to interactions with the animals in both captivity and wilderness. The
seventh in the series of one day conferences on Recent developments in animal
welfare science is being held by the Universal Fund for Animal Welfare, part of its
continued commitment to improving animal welfare with improved scientific
understanding of animals' needs and how they can be addressed.

The following are the Guest speakers,

Mariann Molnar (Central European University, Hungary) Producer perspectives on

farm animal welfare and the intensification of farming in Hungary.

Elena Armstrong, JH Guy, V Sandilands, T Boswell and TV Smulders (Newcastle

University and SRUC, UK). Adult hippocampal neurogenesis as a marker of
cumulative experience in laying hens

Sanne Roelofs and TD Parsons (University of Pennsylvania, USA). Measuring

judgment bias in group-housed sows.

Dan Weary (University of British Columbia, Canada). A Bayesian conception of

animal welfare. UFAW Award Presentations and UFAW Medal for ‘Outstanding
Contribution to Animal Welfare Science’ / UFAW ‘Young Animal Welfare Scientist
of the year.

The concept of "animal welfare" includes the physical health, the emotional
state and the behaviors of the animals. The welfare of animals kept in facility where
they can grow is important for ethical reasons. Also, ensuring the best standards of
animal welfare is a must for modern management in order to fulfil their educational
and conservation roles. The importance of animal welfare for modern management
has been recognized, among others. This code includes the principle that all actions
carried out on an animal should have as their ultimate goal the conservation of the
species without compromising the animal's welfare.
 In summary then, the concept of “animal welfare” includes the physical
health, the emotional state and the behaviors of the animals. The ”multidimensional”
nature of the concept of animal welfare is reflected in the definition proposed by the
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE): “An animal is in a satisfactory state of
wellbeing when it is healthy, comfortable, well nourished, safe, able to express its
innate behavior, and if it is not suffering from unpleasant states such as pain, fear
and distress”. Similarly, the well-known principle of the Five Freedoms reflects the
multidimensional nature of the concept of animal welfare.