Editorial for the Special Issue: "Monitoring of Behavior, Affective States, and Health to Identify Welfare Concerns of Farm Animals".

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Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Animal Husbandry, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Veterinärstraße 13/R, D-80539 München, Germany.

Published: August 2025


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Ensuring the welfare of farm animals remains a core objective in contemporary animal husbandry [...].

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