Party Animals
Thursday
1 June 2006
19:00 - 20:30
What do animals think and feel during the course of a normal day? Is life just a long hard slog in the battle for survival and reproduction, or are exhilaration, tenderness and joy part of an animal's life?
Jonathan Balcombe introduces the evidence for animal pleasure. Join us to discover how animals have fun, and what kind of effect Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men' has on female cheetahs. How do lemurs and capuchins get high? What about hippos going for a manicure? Find out if there is a scientific basis for these observations or whether this is a simple case of anthropomorphism.
Can we ever know what animals really feel? How does science help us get beneath their skin and what are the implications of animal pleasure in the way we deal with animals? Be they pets, potential food or lab rats, what difference does viewing the animal kingdom as a pleasurable one make to us today?
Donald Broom and Gill Langley provide us with insights from a world where this is already the case. What happens at European and worldwide levels when scientific research takes animal welfare into account? Where does animal welfare go wrong and what do the public think about it in the UK? Is there a future for party animals? Get involved in the debate.
Arrive early to enjoy a wide variety of delicious food and drink in our air-conditioned d.café, or make use of our free Internet access in the d.lounge.
Jonathan Balcombe introduces the evidence for animal pleasure. Join us to discover how animals have fun, and what kind of effect Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men' has on female cheetahs. How do lemurs and capuchins get high? What about hippos going for a manicure? Find out if there is a scientific basis for these observations or whether this is a simple case of anthropomorphism.
Can we ever know what animals really feel? How does science help us get beneath their skin and what are the implications of animal pleasure in the way we deal with animals? Be they pets, potential food or lab rats, what difference does viewing the animal kingdom as a pleasurable one make to us today?
Donald Broom and Gill Langley provide us with insights from a world where this is already the case. What happens at European and worldwide levels when scientific research takes animal welfare into account? Where does animal welfare go wrong and what do the public think about it in the UK? Is there a future for party animals? Get involved in the debate.
Arrive early to enjoy a wide variety of delicious food and drink in our air-conditioned d.café, or make use of our free Internet access in the d.lounge.