The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare

The Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau (CAB) has a long and distinguished history in studying the interrelationship between human agricultural activities and the animal world: starting off about a century ago as the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, specialising in the study of insect pests in colonial African agriculture, it gradually linked up with Kew's mycological research bureau and various other similar bodies to form the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux. The end of the British Empire broadened its responsibilities rather than shrinking them, as it became the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, which in turn, as its interests began to stretch outside the geographical limitations of...