Care and Well-Being of Laboratory Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 19566
Special Issue Editor
2. 3R Centre JLU Giessen, Interdisciplinary Centre for 3Rs in Animal Research (ICAR3R), Giessen, Germany
Interests: stereotypies in laboratory rodents; assessment of suffering; 3R-Education; culture of care
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Animals have been attributed an intrinsic value. Ethological studies allow us to better understand the complexity of animals' sensory perceptions and suffering capacities. Thus, enormous responsibilities arise in the use and husbandry of experimental animals as sentient beings. Comprehensive measures are indispensable to continuously improve care and to provide the best possible opportunities to maintain animal welfare.
Care work describes the unpaid and paid (re-)productive activities of mindfulness and solicitude, reflecting both caring and self-care. The concept of care, thus, refers to the everyday, recurring nursing and supervision of animals by animal caretakers. In addition, however, all stakeholders are involved in a far more comprehensive way. Thus, the concept of care also extends to the knowledge, organization and responsibility required in this process.
The maintenance of well-being repeatedly poses challenges for all those involved, as laboratory animal husbandry predominantly occurs in a highly anthropogenic husbandry environment. It seems necessary to change the perspective in terms of the animals' perception to meet their needs and demands.
This Special Issue highlights the multifaceted aspects of care and well-being of laboratory animals from different professional perspectives, addressing ethical views as well as the most recent insights from practice for practice.
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Krämer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal husbandry
- animal welfare
- refinement
- enrichment
- animal ethics
- concept of care
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