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36 relations: Abnormal behaviour of birds in captivity, American Veterinary Medical Association, Animal rights, Animal welfare science, Artillery battery, Asian palm civet, Asphyxia, California Proposition 2 (2008), Cannibalism in poultry, Carbon dioxide, Cervical dislocation, Chick sexing, Chicken, Chinchilla, Compassion in World Farming, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, European Union Council Directive 1999/74/EC, Feather pecking, Fox, Free range, Free-range eggs, Fur farming, Furnished cages, Humane Society of the United States, ISO 216, Keel (bird anatomy), Kopi Luwak, Mink, Osteoporosis, Rabbit, RSPCA Australia, Ruth Harrison, Selective breeding, Strain (biology), United Egg Producers, Vent pecking.
Abnormal behaviour of birds in captivity
Abnormal behavior of birds in captivity can be defined in several ways.
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American Veterinary Medical Association
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), founded in 1863, is a not-for-profit association representing more than 91,000 U.S. veterinarians working in private and corporate practice, government, industry, academia, and uniformed services.
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Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
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Animal welfare science
Animal welfare science is the scientific study of the welfare of animals as pets, in zoos, laboratories, on farms and in the wild.
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Artillery battery
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of artillery, mortars, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface to surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles etc, so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
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Asian palm civet
The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is a small viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Asphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.
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California Proposition 2 (2008)
Proposition 2 was a California ballot proposition in that state's general election on November 4, 2008.
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Cannibalism in poultry
Cannibalism in poultry is the act of one individual of a poultry species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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Cervical dislocation
Cervical dislocation is a common method of animal euthanasia.
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Chick sexing
Chick sexing is the method of distinguishing the sex of chicken and other hatchlings, usually by a trained person called a chick sexer or chicken sexer.
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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.
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Chinchilla
Chinchillas are either of two species of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha.
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Compassion in World Farming
Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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European Union Council Directive 1999/74/EC
European Union Council Directive 1999/74/EC is legislation passed by the European Union on the minimum standards for keeping egg laying hens which effectively bans conventional battery cages.
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Feather pecking
Feather pecking is a behavioural problem that occurs most frequently amongst domestic hens reared for egg production,Huber-Eicher, B. and Sebo, F. 2001.
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Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.
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Free range
A small flock of mixed free-range chickens being fed outdoors Free range denotes a method of farming husbandry where the animals, for at least part of the day, can roam freely outdoors, rather than being confined in an enclosure for 24 hours each day.
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Free-range eggs
Free-range eggs are eggs produced from birds that may be permitted outdoors.
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Fur farming
Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur.
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Furnished cages
Furnished cages, sometimes called enriched or modified cages, are cages for egg laying hens which have been designed to overcome some of the welfare concerns of battery cages whilst retaining their economic and husbandry advantages, and also provide some of the welfare advantages of non-cage systems.
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Humane Society of the United States
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), based in Washington, D.C., is an American nonprofit organization founded by journalist Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser in 1954, to address what they saw as animal-related cruelties of national scope, and to resolve animal welfare problems by applying strategies beyond the resources or abilities of local organizations.
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ISO 216
ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes used in most countries in the world today, although not in Canada, the United States, Mexico, or the Dominican Republic.
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Keel (bird anatomy)
A keel or carina (plural carinae) in bird anatomy is an extension of the sternum (breastbone) which runs axially along the midline of the sternum and extends outward, perpendicular to the plane of the ribs.
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Kopi Luwak
Kopi luwak, or civet coffee, is coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus).
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Mink
Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neovison and Mustela, and part of the family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, otters and ferrets.
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Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease where increased bone weakness increases the risk of a broken bone.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).
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RSPCA Australia
RSPCA Australia (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is an Australian peak organisation established in 1981 to promote animal welfare.
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Ruth Harrison
Ruth Harrison OBE (24 June 1920 – 13 June 2000), was a British animal welfare activist and author.
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Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
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Strain (biology)
In biology, a strain is a low-level taxonomic rank used at the intraspecific level (within a species).
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United Egg Producers
United Egg Producers (UEP) is a Capper–Volstead agricultural cooperative in the United States which represents the interests of American egg producers.
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Vent pecking
Vent pecking is an abnormal behaviour of birds performed primarily by commercial egg-laying hens.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_cage
