Resources are, as always, limited. Should we then invest in improving some details in the lives of over 500 farmed aquatic animal species, most of which are known not being able to experience welfare in captivity anyway? Or should we rather focus on the few species that possibly may thrive under improved farming conditions?
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Humans and other animals with long-term memory tend to be addict to information — they grab at any information, whether it is useful or useless. Interestingly. Goldfishes don’t.
Goldfishes, too, are capable of remembering long passed experiences, but they are simply not interested in news that doesn’t make sense to them, as a recent study finds [1].
Why is that? The researchers put forward some hypotheses to be tested yet. Maybe goldfishes have a lower tolerance for frustration and therefore avoid to choose a situation which could turn our disappointing. Or they can deal better with uncertainty then we do and therefore do not need to know everything. The typical forage behaviour of a species could also play a role in its hunger for information. Interesting questions; the answers cloud also shed more light on our own behaviour in front of information.
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[1] Do goldfish like to be informed? (Preprint)
First published on 25.06.2024 on Facebook
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Emigration is not an unusual event in nature. The evolution of species can be described as an adaptation to the ecological niche a species succeeded to conquer and colonise. There are events of migration that can been understood as an expression of free will — also in animals?
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As a rule of thumb, the more a fishery respects the environment, the more it reduces the suffering of the animals concerned, and vice versa. However, for one of the most sustainable fishing methods, this rule often does not apply yet: fishing by pole and line. Its impact on non-target species and on the aquatic environment is generally as low as neglectable, and its energy demand per ton of catch is much lower than in most other commercial fishing methods. But…
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Notizen aus der Welt unter Wasser
Die Tierschutzkommission der britischen Regierung verlangt einen besseren gesetzlichen Schutz von Fischen während des Schlachtprozesses, dem jährlich 77 Millionen Fische in der Aquakultur zugeführt werden, vor allem Lachse in schottischen Zuchten. Nur Hühner müssen in Grossbritannien in noch grössere Zahl dran glauben.
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In the post ‚Is there animal welfare for shrimps?‘ of 05.08.2023 [1] I mentioned that there are a few ’shrimp farmers who really try hard to do the best, also for the animals‘. I have known the company SwissShrimp.ch since its beginnings; if farming shrimps at all, then like this, I have already been quoted as saying.
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A study [1] published in 2022 concludes that ’still little is known about some key parameters related to the five welfare dimensions, as they might be applied to penaeid shrimp‘ — in stark contrast to the knowledge on nutritional needs, stress physiology, immunology and disease control in shrimp farming.
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In his recent newsletter [1], Lewis Bollard, farm animal welfare programme officer at Open Philanthropy, makes a very interesting point. Starting with the question of why humans love some animals while disregarding or mistreating others, Lewis cites several studies that show an astonishingly small difference in the importance people place on the welfare of farm or companion animals — in world regions as diverse as North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. In countries such as Sudan or Bangladesh, people even place slightly more importance on the welfare of farm animals.
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To survive, a living being must be able to adapt to its environment. A clever experiment with zebrafishes shows that a comfortable life costs adaptability.
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Um zu überleben, muss sich ein Lebewesen an seine Umwelt anpassen können. Ein kluges Experiment mit Zebrafischen zeigt: Ein bequemes Leben kostet Anpassungsfähigkeit.
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