SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY TOPIC
1. = ANIMAL WELFARE 2= ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS 3=FARMING AND ENVIRONMENT. 4 =BEHAVIOURAL SYNCHRONY. 5= SOCIAL HIERARCHIES 6= ANIMAL SIGNALS 7= BIRD VISION
1. ANIMAL WELFARE (FOR AUTOMATED WELFARE ASSESSMENT See OPTICFLOCK)
Dawkins, M.S. (2021) The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-884898-8 (pb)
Dawkins, M.S. (2021) Does smart farming improve or damage animal welfare? Technology and what animals want. Frontiers in Animal Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2021.736536
Rowe, E., Dawkins, M. S. and Gebhardt-Henrich, S.G. (2019) A systematic review of precision livestock farming in the poultry sector: is technology focussed on improving bird welfare? Animals (9): article 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9090614
Dawkins, M.S. (2019) Animal welfare as preventative medicine. Animal Welfare 28:137-141. https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.28.2.137
Dawkins, M.S. and Layton, R. (2012) Breeding for better welfare: genetic goals for broiler chickens and their parents. Animal Welfare 21: 147-155. https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.21.2.147
Dawkins, M.S. (2008) The science of animal suffering. Ethology 114: 937-945. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.14390310.2008.01557.x
Dawkins, M.S. (2006) A user's guide to animal welfare science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25(2): 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2005.10.017
Dawkins, M.S., Donnelly, C.A. & Jones, T.A. (2004) Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density. Nature 427: 342-344. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02226
Dawkins, M.S. (1990) From an animal's point of view: motivation, fitness and animal welfare. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13: 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X000077104
2. ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Dawkins, M.S. (2017) Animal welfare with and without consciousness. Thomas Henry Huxley Review. Journal of Zoology 301: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12434
Dawkins, M.S. (2015) Animal welfare and the paradox of animal consciousness. Advances in the Study of Behaviour 47: 5-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.asb.2014.11.001
Dawkins, M. S. (2001) Who needs consciousness? Animal Welfare 10:S19-29.
Dawkins, M.S. (1998) Through our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness. W.H. Freeman
3. FARMING AND ENVIRONMENT
Dawkins, M.S. (2017) Animal welfare and efficient farming: is conflict inevitable? Animal Production Science 57: 201-208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AN15383
Garnett, T., Appleby, M.C., Balmford, A., Bateman, I.J., Benton, T.G. Bloomer, P., Burlingame, B., Dawkins, M. et al. (2013) Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies. Science 341: 33-34. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1234485
4 BEHAVIOURAL SYNCHRONY
Gajamannage, K., Bollit, E.M., Porter, M.A. and Dawkins, M.S. (2017) Modelling the lowest-cost splitting of a herd off cows by optimising a cost function. Chaos: 27 (issue 6) article no. 063114. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4983671
Stoye, S, Porter, M.A. and Dawkins, M.S. (2012) Synchronized lying in cattle in relation to time of day. Livestock Science 149: 70-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2012.06.028
Sun, J., Bollt, E.M., Porter, M.A. and Dawkins, M.S. (2011) A mathematical model for the dynamics and synchronization of cows. Physica D 340: 1497-1509. https://doi.org/j.physd.2011.06.009
Waitt, C.D., Jones, T.A., and Dawkins, M.S. (2009) Behaviour, synchrony and welfare of Pekin ducks in relation to water use. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 121: 184-189.
5. SOCIAL HIERARCHIES
Hall, C.L., Porter, M.A. and Dawkins, M.S. (2020) Dominance, sharing, and assessment in an iterated Hawk-Dove game. Journal of Theoretical Biology 493: article 110101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.110101
Dawkins, M.S. (2010) Do asymmetries destablize the Prisoner’s Dilemma and make reciprocal altruism unlikely? Animal Behaviour 80:339-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.005
6. ANIMAL SIGNALS
Guilford, T. & Dawkins, M.S. (1991) Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals. Animal Behaviour 42: 1-14
Dawkins, M.S. & Guilford, T. (1991) The corruption of honest signalling. Animal Behaviour 41: 865-874.
7. BIRD VISION
Dawkins, M.S. & Woodington, A. (2000) Pattern recognition and active vision in chickens. Nature403: 403; 652-655.
Dawkins, M.S. (1995) How do hens view other hens?The use of lateral and binocular visual fields in social recognition. Behaviour 132: 591-606.
Dawkins, M.S. & Woodington, A. (1997) Distance and the presentation of visual stimuli in birds. Animal Behaviour 54: 1019-1025.