Simple Summary Animal sentience refers to the ability of animals to experience pleasurable
states such as joy, and aversive states such as pain and fear (Broom, DM Dis. Aquat. Org�…

Abstract Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative
to the animal welfare movement. In this review, we examined what is being explored and�…

A brief history of the concept of sentience is given. It is pointed out that the idea of sentience,
at least in the mammals and birds, was accepted by lay people by the time of the�…

This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman
animals' sentience in the Western canon: what we might know about their capacity for�…

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death�…

To Charles Darwin, it was obvious that animals are sentient, so why should the idea not be
now universally accepted? I review the difficulties and issues with animal sentience with a�…

Simple Summary Formal recognition that some animals are sentient beings is now
widespread and continues to increase internationally. Sentience is a capacity of animals to�…

One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory
animals. Modern views on animal welfare emphasize the role of animal sentience, ie the�…

The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for
sophisticated cognitive concepts and for both positive and negative feelings in a wide range�…

In debates about animal sentience, the precautionary principle is often invoked. The idea is
that when the evidence of sentience is inconclusive, we should “give the animal the benefit�…