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Biological Response to Stress: Key to Assessment of Animal Well-Being?

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Society is currently involved in a serious debate about the use of animals in scientific research, teaching, product-safety testing, recreation, and as a source of food. Although the views and philosophies that have been expressed in this debate are diverse, one central mutually acceptable theme has developed: a concern that everything possible be done to ensure the wellbeing of animals under the charge of researchers and that these animals do not suffer unduly. The problem with responding to this concern is how to assess the wellbeing of animals. How should the quality of animal life be measured?

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  1. Department of Animal Science and California Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, California, USA

    Gary P. Moberg

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Moberg, G.P. (1985). Biological Response to Stress: Key to Assessment of Animal Well-Being?. In: Moberg, G.P. (eds) Animal Stress. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7544-6_3

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