ASCI 340 Midterm #1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Animal Welfare - Correct Answers ✅-mandated science driven by the needs and beliefs of society -peoples perceptions about animals change over time and in our history some of the most dramatic changes have happened in the last 50 years -not all people share the same beliefs and values -issues are complex, which is why the field takes on a multidisciplinary approach to address issues Mandate - Correct Answers ✅-an official order or commission to do something -society "mandates" research to explore concerns and often make recommendations about whether and how animals should be cared for Moby Doll - Correct Answers ✅-the second orca ever captured or displayed in a public aquarium exhibit (Vancouver Aquarium) -July 16- whale is harpooned by Sam Burich and struggling on the line with no signs of expiring- whale was towed into Vancouver port -20,000 people came to see him on the first day of public viewing -died 75 days after capture -demonstrated the huge public interest in seeing a live orca and the unexpected docility of the predator 1 / 3
ASCI 340 Midterm #1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Vancouver Aquarium - Correct Answers ✅-Sam Burich, a local sculptor and fisherman, commissioned in 1964 to kill an orca -task was to use the carcass to make a life sized replica to hang from the ceiling of the new entrance to the aquarium -after Moby Doll attracted so much interest, decided to construct a tank large enough to hold orcas -2001- transferred last remaining orca to facility in San Diego SeaWorld - Correct Answers ✅-2016- agreed to end captive orca breeding program The Petrie Papyri - Correct Answers ✅-oldest known Medical Papyrus also referred to veterinary diseases (Circa
1800 BCE)
-one of the first to show connection between animal behavior and health
- "If I see [a bull with] wind (cold?), he is with his eyes
running, his forehead Uden (wrinkled?) the roots (gums?) of his teeth red, his neck swollen (or raised?)... let him be laid on his side, let him be sprinkled with cold water, let his eyes and hoofs and all his body be rubbed with gourds or melons..." Ancient Greece - Correct Answers ✅-~300 BC to 300 AD 2 / 3
ASCI 340 Midterm #1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) -nature of the animal -debate about how animals ought to be viewed/treated
-3 concepts: kinship, rationality, capacity to suffer
-only those that are rational beings are those that require our moral concern Europe - Correct Answers ✅-18th/19th Century -nature of people Nature of the Animal - Correct Answers ✅-influences the way people treat animals -ancient Greeks Nature of the People - Correct Answers ✅-reflective of the way people treat animals -reflection of our moral character -Europeans Kinship - Correct Answers ✅-"Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul." -Pythagoras -animal and man are made from the same elements, permeated by the same breath -there are physical and spiritual similarities between human and animals
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