What’s it like to be a bat? Scientists develop new solution to the puzzle of animal minds
We assess animal welfare by measuring stress hormones, counting behaviours, and checking for disease. But what's missing is a way to evaluate these data from the animals' lived experience. A new framework — the teleonome — offers a biological north star for welfare science, grounded in each species' own evolutionary logic. The post What’s it like to be a bat? Scientists develop new solution to the puzzle of animal minds appeared first on Horses and People.
We assess animal welfare by measuring stress hormones, counting behaviours, and checking for disease. But what's missing is a way to evaluate these data from the animals' lived experience. A new framework — the teleonome — offers a biological north star for welfare science, grounded in each species' own evolutionary logic.
The post What’s it like to be a bat? Scientists develop new solution to the puzzle of animal minds appeared first on Horses and People.
