ABSTRACT
Although our relationship with free living animals is fundamentally different from those we have domesticated or keep in captivity, it is incontrovertible that human activity can have a profound effect on their quality of life. It is not surprising, then, that it is being argued by some that, ‘if it is accepted that high standards of welfare should be a guiding principle in the husbandry of production animals, then it is inconsistent not to apply this principle to man’s interactions with wildlife’.35
