Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.84872
Maria Teresa Capucchio, E. Colombino, M. Tarantola, D. Biagini, Loris Giovanni Alborali, Antonio Marco Maisano, F. Scali, F. Raspa, E. Valle, I. Biasato, A. Schiavone, C. Salogni, Valentina Bar, C. Gili, F. Guarda
Changes in the “habitat” may interfere with the normal functioning of all biological systems. The existence of relationships between environmental changes and health in humans and animal species is well known and it has become generally accepted that poor health affects the animal’s natural behaviors and animal welfare and, consequently, food safety and animal production quality. Microclimate alterations, husbandry-management conditions, quality of human-animal interactions, feeding systems, and rearing environment represent the main factors that could negatively affect animal welfare and may produce behavioral, biochemical, endocrine, and pathological modifications in domestic and wild animals. Particularly, high stress levels can reduce the immune system response and promote infectious diseases. Adverse socio-environmental factors can represent a major stimulus to the development of different pathologies. This chapter will discuss the main pathological modifications described in domestic and wild animals due to “disturbed habitat” paying more attention to critical points detected in standard breeding systems.
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