Keelin O'Driscoll (Ph.D., 2007) is a Senior Research Officer in Teagasc, the Irish Agricultural Development Authority. Her research focuses on improving commercial pig welfare, and she has investigated strategies to reduce the need to tail dock for 10 years.Anna Valros (Ph.D., 2003) is Professor of Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki. Pig welfare is her main research area, and she has worked on tail biting related topics for over 20 years.

This book has been reviewed in Animal Welfare. The full review is available via Cambridge Core: cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/

• Lists of figures and tablesIntroduction1 The legal prohibition on routine tail docking and the long road to achieving complianceCompassion in World Farming: tail docking of pigs – where are we, and how did we get herePeter Stephenson2 Anatomy and physiology of the pig tail: characterisation of tail biting injury and consequencesDale Sandercock, Mette Herskin and Heli Nordgren3 Why does tail biting occur? An evolutionary perspectiveRick D’Eath and Marc Bracke4 Individual pig-related factorsLaurianne Canario and Catherine Larzul5 Poor health and the brain: how the immune system can influence neurophysiology and behaviour, and how this relates to damaging behaviour in pigsHege Lund and Janicke Nordgreen6 The social environmentInonge Reimert and Nanda Ursinus7 The physical environmentKeelin O’Driscoll, Melissa Cupido and Jen-Yun Chou8 Environmental enrichmentStephanie Buijs, Jen-Yun Chou and Heleen van de Weerd9 Feeds and feedingSandra Edwards10 Risk assessmentSabine Dippel11 The evidence of tail biting: where, when and how to measure tail lesionsAnna Valros and Laura Boyle12 Changing stakeholder behaviourGrace Carroll, Alison Burrell, and Lisa Graham-Wisener13 Precision livestock farmingMona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Lene Juul Pedersen and Tomas Norton14 The tail as an iceberg indicator: interrelationships with welfare problemsManja Zupan Šemrov and Antonia Patt15 The economic and legal aspects of tail biting and tail dockingJarkko K. Niemi and Peter Stevenson16 The ethical aspects of tail biting and tail dockingBerenice Bovenkerk, Marc Bracke and Anna ValrosConclusion

Keelin O'Driscoll (Ph.D., 2007) is a Senior Research Officer in Teagasc, the Irish Agricultural Development Authority. Her research focuses on improving commercial pig welfare, and she has investigated strategies to reduce the need to tail dock for 10 years.Anna Valros (Ph.D., 2003) is Professor of Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki. Pig welfare is her main research area, and she has worked on tail biting related topics for over 20 years.

This book has been reviewed in Animal Welfare. The full review is available via Cambridge Core: cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/

• Lists of figures and tablesIntroduction1 The legal prohibition on routine tail docking and the long road to achieving complianceCompassion in World Farming: tail docking of pigs – where are we, and how did we get herePeter Stephenson2 Anatomy and physiology of the pig tail: characterisation of tail biting injury and consequencesDale Sandercock, Mette Herskin and Heli Nordgren3 Why does tail biting occur? An evolutionary perspectiveRick D’Eath and Marc Bracke4 Individual pig-related factorsLaurianne Canario and Catherine Larzul5 Poor health and the brain: how the immune system can influence neurophysiology and behaviour, and how this relates to damaging behaviour in pigsHege Lund and Janicke Nordgreen6 The social environmentInonge Reimert and Nanda Ursinus7 The physical environmentKeelin O’Driscoll, Melissa Cupido and Jen-Yun Chou8 Environmental enrichmentStephanie Buijs, Jen-Yun Chou and Heleen van de Weerd9 Feeds and feedingSandra Edwards10 Risk assessmentSabine Dippel11 The evidence of tail biting: where, when and how to measure tail lesionsAnna Valros and Laura Boyle12 Changing stakeholder behaviourGrace Carroll, Alison Burrell, and Lisa Graham-Wisener13 Precision livestock farmingMona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Lene Juul Pedersen and Tomas Norton14 The tail as an iceberg indicator: interrelationships with welfare problemsManja Zupan Šemrov and Antonia Patt15 The economic and legal aspects of tail biting and tail dockingJarkko K. Niemi and Peter Stevenson16 The ethical aspects of tail biting and tail dockingBerenice Bovenkerk, Marc Bracke and Anna ValrosConclusion

Keelin O'Driscoll (Ph.D., 2007) is a Senior Research Officer in Teagasc, the Irish Agricultural Development Authority. Her research focuses on improving commercial pig welfare, and she has investigated strategies to reduce the need to tail dock for 10 years.Anna Valros (Ph.D., 2003) is Professor of Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki. Pig welfare is her main research area, and she has worked on tail biting related topics for over 20 years.

This book has been reviewed in Animal Welfare. The full review is available via Cambridge Core: cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/

• Lists of figures and tablesIntroduction1 The legal prohibition on routine tail docking and the long road to achieving complianceCompassion in World Farming: tail docking of pigs – where are we, and how did we get herePeter Stephenson2 Anatomy and physiology of the pig tail: characterisation of tail biting injury and consequencesDale Sandercock, Mette Herskin and Heli Nordgren3 Why does tail biting occur? An evolutionary perspectiveRick D’Eath and Marc Bracke4 Individual pig-related factorsLaurianne Canario and Catherine Larzul5 Poor health and the brain: how the immune system can influence neurophysiology and behaviour, and how this relates to damaging behaviour in pigsHege Lund and Janicke Nordgreen6 The social environmentInonge Reimert and Nanda Ursinus7 The physical environmentKeelin O’Driscoll, Melissa Cupido and Jen-Yun Chou8 Environmental enrichmentStephanie Buijs, Jen-Yun Chou and Heleen van de Weerd9 Feeds and feedingSandra Edwards10 Risk assessmentSabine Dippel11 The evidence of tail biting: where, when and how to measure tail lesionsAnna Valros and Laura Boyle12 Changing stakeholder behaviourGrace Carroll, Alison Burrell, and Lisa Graham-Wisener13 Precision livestock farmingMona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Lene Juul Pedersen and Tomas Norton14 The tail as an iceberg indicator: interrelationships with welfare problemsManja Zupan Šemrov and Antonia Patt15 The economic and legal aspects of tail biting and tail dockingJarkko K. Niemi and Peter Stevenson16 The ethical aspects of tail biting and tail dockingBerenice Bovenkerk, Marc Bracke and Anna ValrosConclusion