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The so-called Brambell Report (1965) became a famous document in all Western countries, although it never reached parliament, which was its original purpose. Especially §37, indicating five essential freedoms of movement, served as a reference for many authors. This has of course its reasons. The main reason may be, however, that the Brambell Committee, in its wisdom, incorporated in this paragraph 37 the possibility for every animal to carry out explorative behaviour and comfort behaviour. Little has been published about comfort behaviour in domestic pigs up to now and yet it might be a key to the judgement of well-being in modern husbandry.
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van Putten, G. (1978). Comfort Behaviour in Pigs: Informative for Their Well-Being. In: Fölsch, D.W. (eds) The Ethology and Ethics of Farm Animal Production. Tierhaltung Animal Management, vol 6. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6459-6_7
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