You should know a good bit about that species behavior, you know, how they should cope, how they’re interacting with their enclosure. If you’re working with an animal every day, you should be able to make a fairly accurate welfare assessment just from your own casual observations. But now it all has to be tabulated and on a form and ideally done by someone who doesn’t work with the animal. So they’re making a an objective opinion about, you know, what’s going on with the animal. So is welfare important? Yes, of course it is.
