What should we do about sheep? The role of intelligence in welfare considerations

Browning, Heather ORCID: 0000-0003-1554-7052 (2019) What should we do about sheep? The role of intelligence in welfare considerations. Animal Sentience, 4 (25). ISSN 2377-7478

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Abstract

Marino & Merskin (2019) demonstrate that sheep are more cognitively complex than typically thought. We should be cautious in interpreting the implications of these results for welfare considerations to avoid perpetuating mistaken beliefs about the moral value of intelligence as opposed to sentience. There are, however, still important ways in which this work can help improve sheeps’ lives.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/ani...
Additional Information:	© 2019 The Author
Divisions:	CPNSS
Subjects:	Q Science > QL Zoology
Date Deposited:	15 Aug 2022 12:48
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 03:12
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115986

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