Midterm exam Animal Welfare Questions

Midterm exam Animal Welfare Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)

Domestic communication: Cats - Correct Answers ✅Vocalizations

Pleasant sounds - meows have been selected by humans Chirps - queen to kittens when nursing Growl, hiss, spit - antagonistic Chatter - when restrained from hunting Postures High tail carriage - greeting, investigating, frustrating Ears forward - engaged, interested, calm "Halloween cat" with Ears back & erect tail -fearful

Domestic Animal communication: Pigs - Correct Answers ✅Vocalizations

Short grunt -response to familiar sounds or sights, or while rooting Bark - when startled Screams - hungry piglet or pig in distress

Domestic Animal communication: cattle - Correct Answers ✅Posture

Facial muscle tension & low ears - pain Feet drawn under the head, ears pointing down & back, head lowered - aggressive Vocalizations Moo - low pitched - communication with & trying to find herd-mates Hoot - higher-pitched & repeated -distress Calves have a special "moo" when they're hungry Maternal behavior - Correct Answers ✅-chicks attracted to mother hens tactile & auditory cues

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Midterm exam Animal Welfare Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)

• Once the down begins to appear on their heads, the hen will peck at them

to forcefully reject them & make them disperse Paternal Behavior - Correct Answers ✅- very little involvement in care taking ex) rodents, seahorses, penguins, snakehead fish Maternal Behavior Goals 1-3 - Correct Answers ✅1.Preparation of the body to develop eggs/embryos and to provide for the young once they arrive 2.Preparation of an appropriate place for birth/egg-laying 3.Help eggs/infants thermoregulate once outside of the mother

• Licking the amniotic fluid off the newborn - happens in most domestic

species except pigs & camels Maternal behavior Goals 4-7 - Correct Answers ✅4.Provide food & help young to find/obtain food

• More experienced cows are often better at encouraging calves to find milk

than heifers 5.Help young learn about their environment 6.Defend young against predators 7.Assess when to reduce/terminate parental care Maternal Behavior goals 8 - Correct Answers ✅8.Recognition of parent by the young & vice versa

• Done by grooming, olfactory, gustatory, visual, & auditory recognition
• In many species, immediate removal of the neonate from the dam for

several hours will result in her rejecting them when they are returned

• In hens, they will recognize the chicks' "cheeping" calls & she will brood

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Midterm exam Animal Welfare Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Internal & external factors in maternal recognition - Correct Answers

✅external factors: auditory, olfactory, visual

also related to estrogen & oxytocin levels

Abnormal: Concaveation - Correct Answers ✅Where maternal behavior is

induced in virgin females after repeated exposure to neonates

• Mostly studied in rats, but see anecdotally in many species

abnormal maternal behavior: sows - Correct Answers ✅Sow savaging

• Sows, and particularly first-time mothers (gilts)

-After difficult farrowings

• Assumed it is related to pain &/or stress
• Should treat the root cause and cull the sow

Sows refusing to allow piglets to nurse

• Usually due to mastitis, lack of stimulation, or discomfort

abnormal maternal behavior: equine ex 1 - Correct Answers ✅1. Foal

rejection

• Rejection of suckling
• Lick the foal & appear to recognize it, but don't allow it to nurse
• More common in primiparous mares
• May harm the foal if it persists
• A lot of work on the part of the caretaker to assist

-Begin by holding a bottle at the inguinal area of the mare to simulate positioning

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