This is really neat, I’m a big fan of the comprehensive approach and the documentation style. Will spend more time later looking into the details; I’m not an expert in the field and can’t comment on the specific methods, but the high-level work seems very reasonable.
Side note that it seems kind of dismal that wild chimps are apparently rated with higher welfare than average humans in India, though I guess the chimp lives may actually be pretty nice, especially because there aren’t many of them. On that note, are there other animal species you think are particularly happy, but didn’t include in this report?
In terms of other animals that could be quite net positive, large herbivores and predators at the top of their food chain with relative abundance of food (e.g. elephants, moose, whales and dolphins) would be my guess, but we did not go deep into any of those animals. Some domestic animals (e.g. well treated dogs and cats) also seem plausible to have pretty net positive lives.
This is really neat, I’m a big fan of the comprehensive approach and the documentation style. Will spend more time later looking into the details; I’m not an expert in the field and can’t comment on the specific methods, but the high-level work seems very reasonable.
Side note that it seems kind of dismal that wild chimps are apparently rated with higher welfare than average humans in India, though I guess the chimp lives may actually be pretty nice, especially because there aren’t many of them. On that note, are there other animal species you think are particularly happy, but didn’t include in this report?
Thanks!
In terms of other animals that could be quite net positive, large herbivores and predators at the top of their food chain with relative abundance of food (e.g. elephants, moose, whales and dolphins) would be my guess, but we did not go deep into any of those animals. Some domestic animals (e.g. well treated dogs and cats) also seem plausible to have pretty net positive lives.