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Improving the lives of people through improving the welfare of their working equids.

通过改善工作设备的福利来改善人们的生活。

基本信息

批准号：
1956591
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Portsmouth
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1956591
关键词：
Improving lives people through improving

项目摘要

For many of the world's poorest people, over 100 million working equids provide vital support for livelihoods, access to healthcare, education and basic necessities. The reliance on working equids for everyday life makes them people's most important livestock and they can be especially valuable to women. Despite this, the welfare standards of working equids are often low with heat exposure and insect challenge considered to be two of the biggest problems facing working equids. Improving the welfare of working equids will enhance equid productivity and by virtue of the interdependent relationship between working equids and their owners, will provide owners with social, economic and welfare benefits. This multidisciplinary project will use research methods from psychology, social sciences and animal behaviour to provide an understanding of the welfare needs of working equids, the relationship between equids and their owners and the practical challenges that exist to good working equid welfare. Research will be conducted into natural shelter use by healthy equids in hot climates which will provide a basis for defining good welfare standards. The physiological effects of climate will be investigated through heat loss and hair density analysis. Interviews will be conducted with equid owners to assess the human impacts that improved working equid welfare would have. Ultimately the project will develop a practical, research-led initiative that will be implemented to improve working equid welfare. The project will use a holistic approach that considers human wellbeing alongside equid welfare and aims to improve the lives of both people and animals.

对于世界上许多最贫穷的人来说，1亿多匹马为他们的生计、获得医疗保健、教育和基本必需品提供了至关重要的支持。日常生活中对工作用马的依赖使它们成为人们最重要的牲畜，对妇女来说尤其有价值。尽管如此，工作马的福利标准通常很低，热暴露和昆虫挑战被认为是工作马面临的两个最大问题。提高劳动马的福利水平将提高劳动马的生产力，并通过劳动马与主人之间的相互依存关系，为主人提供社会、经济和福利效益。这个多学科项目将使用心理学、社会科学和动物行为学的研究方法来了解工作马的福利需求、马与主人之间的关系以及良好工作马福利存在的实际挑战。将对健康马科动物在炎热气候下使用天然庇护所进行研究，这将为确定良好福利标准提供基础。气候的生理效应将通过热损失和毛密度分析来研究。访谈将与马主人进行，以评估人类的影响，改善工作的马福利将有。最终，该项目将发展成为一个实用的、以研究为主导的倡议，并将实施以改善工作的福利。该项目将采用一种整体的方法，考虑到人类和动物的福利，旨在改善人和动物的生活。