creators_name: Engel, Cindy Reece
editors_name: Powell, Jane
editors_name: et al., 
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-10-23
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:32:10
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title: Acknowledging the potential role of animal self-medication
ispublished: pub
subjects: 9research
subjects: 7animalhealth
full_text_status: public
keywords: Colloquium of organic researchers; COR; animal health and welfare; livestock husbandry; self-medication;animal behaviour
abstract: This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Much research on animal health and welfare assumes that animals passively endure the pathogens, diet, and environmental conditions that come their way. Natural selection however has honed behavioural strategies for optimising health. Some of these involve the selection of ‘medicines’ to modulate health. Although it is not yet known to what extent domestic species retain the ability to self-medicate, it is vital that researchers acknowledge the potential role such behaviour might play when designing research protocols
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference
publisher: Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
pagerange: 355-358
refereed: never
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citation: Engel, Cindy Reece (2002) Acknowledging the potential role of animal self-medication. UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Aberystwyth, 26-28 March 2002. In: Powell, Jane and et al., (Eds.) Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth, pp. 355-358.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/8282/1/engel_animal__self-medication.pdf