Shift in Research Target from Plant to Animal

In this paper, the common and different features of the agricultural background in East Asia and EU will be reviewed. And as one of the common research topics in agriculture, the livestock farming will be taken, and the recent research topics in behavioural science of domestic animal will be introduced. The fundamental idea is that animal can be considered as the intelligent biosensor as well as the actuator that takes the information from the environment, processes the information to intelligence and responds against the environment, using central nervous system. Therefore, it may be very important and interesting research topics from the practical as well as academic viewpoints to understand the animal behavior with the computer for mechanization for animal breeding.