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Do fish feel pain? / / Victoria Braithwaite



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Autore: Braithwaite Victoria Visualizza persona
Titolo: Do fish feel pain? / / Victoria Braithwaite Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina: 573.8717
Soggetto topico: Fishes - Sense organs
Pain in animals
Pain perception
Nociceptors
Fishing - Moral and ethical aspects
Fisheries - Moral and ethical aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. The Problem; 2. What Is Pain and Why Does It Hurt?; 3. Bee Stings and Vinegar: The Evidence That Fish Feel Pain; 4. Suffer the Little Fishes?; 5. Drawing the Line; 6. Why It Took So Long to Ask the Fish Pain Question-and Why It Must Be Asked; 7. Looking to the Future; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different. In many people's perception, fish, with their lack of facial expressions or recognisable communication, are not seen to count when it comes to welfare. Angling is a major sport, and fishing a big industry. Millions of fish are caught on barbed hooks, or left to die by suffocation on the decks of fishing boats.Here, biologist Victoria Braithwaite explores the question of fish pain and fish suffering, explaining what we now understand about fish behaviour, and exa
Titolo autorizzato: Do fish feel pain  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-49057-5
9786612490576
0-19-157296-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815875203321
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