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The role of zoos and aquariums in education for a sustainable future
Contributor(s): Jan Packer, Roy Ballantyne
This chapter explores visitors' environmental learning in zoos and aquariums, inclusive of narrative accounts that demonstrate the impact of such experiences in the lives of visitors regarding the process and outcomes.
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Deer and identity in medieval Ireland
Contributor(s): Fiona Beglane
The concept that identity is inextricably linked with places, landscapes and objects has become familiar in archaeology (Thomas 1998, 80, 90; Bradley 2000, 155-61; O'Keeffe 2001). It is only recently however that this idea has been extended to animals and their interaction with human society...
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Les interactions entre l'homme et les animaux familiers : quelques champs d'investigation et réflexions méthodologiques
Contributor(s): Véronique Servais
L'article synthétise les principales études dans le domaine des interactions homme-animal. Il souligne les difficultés méthodologiques liées à la démonstration rigoureuse des effets thérapeutiques des animaux.
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The Ethics of Animal Training
Contributor(s): Anthony Milligan
Animal training sits toward the uncomfortably overt end of human dominance. It can involve familiar kinds of harms, but, as commentators such as Vicki Hearne and Donna Haraway have pointed out, it can also enhance animal contentment, capabilities and autonomy. However, unlike socialization, it is...
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Colonial Animality: Canadian Colonialism and the Human-Animal Relationship
Contributor(s): Azeezah Kanji
Located at the juncture of critical animal studies and decolonial theory, this analysis contemplates the connections and entanglements between settler colonialism and animality in Canadian constitutional discourse. How are coloniality and anthropocentricism — and the borders they draw...
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Comment diviniser son dauphin. Modèles de relation, régimes d'interactivité et savoirs anthropo-zoologiques.
Contributor(s): Véronique Servais
L'article propose de distinguer trois régimes d'interactivité selon le type d'engagement affectif de l'être humain dans sa relation avec un animal : savant, ordinaire et non-ordinaire. Les modalités de la communication inter-espèces qui...
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Conclusion: illustrating the perceived economic impact of companion animals
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
The need for further research and follow up studies on the economic impact of companion animals on the UK economy is briefly discussed.
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Indirect costs: extending the scope of economic value
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
This chapter describes two areas that show the significance of indirect costs associated with companion animals: (i) the effect of companion animal ownership on human health (considering examples relating to the physical, mental and social health of people) and its economic implications and (ii)...
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Updates on the economic impact of companion animals to the UK
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
The current status of the companion animal-keeping phenomenon and subsequent pet care industry in the UK is described, with emphasis on some of the possible benefits and costs to certain economies that are associated with companion animals.
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Key features of the Council for Science and Society (CSS) report 1988
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
This chapter describes the extent and economic significance of the pet-keeping phenomenon, benefits of pet ownership and associated problems of pet ownership in the UK based on the Council for Science and Society (CSS) report 1988.
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Introduction
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
This chapter introduces the report, which describes the animal and human health costs and benefits impact of pets in the UK.
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Methodology
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
This chapter discusses the methodology used to obtain data on the economic significance of companion animals in the UK.
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Social contact in horses: implications for human-horse interactions
Contributor(s): M.C. VanDierendonck, D. Goodwin
The ancestors of the domestic horse were important prey species for many predators, including humans. Equids possess few physical defence mechanisms, relying on survival strategies centred on the formation of cohesive social bonds within stable groups. Mutual grooming is common between these...
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Effacing the human: Rachel Rosenthal, rats and shared creative agency
Contributor(s): Carrie Rohman
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The human-animal interaction
Contributor(s): Swan, P., Bailey, D.
Human-animal relationships are far from fading in importance or reducing in number, despite progressive urbanization and industrialization. With increasing protection for animals being sought by legislation around the world and the recognition of important connections in our interactions with...
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Introduction
Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
This chapter introduces the report, which describes the animal and human health costs and benefits impact of pets in the UK.
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What do infants know about cats, dogs, and people? Development of a 'like-people' representation for nonhuman animals
Contributor(s): Quinn, Paul C., Freund, Lisa S., McCune, Sandra, Esposito, Layla, Gee, Nancy R., McCardle, Peggy
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Integrative commentary III: A primer in three areas key to future research
Contributor(s): McCardle, Peggy, Freund, Lisa S., McCune, Sandra, Esposito, Layla, Gee, Nancy R.
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Understanding empathy and psychopathy through cognitive and social neuroscience
Contributor(s): Lozier, Leah M., Brethel-Haurwitz, Kristin M., Marsh, Abigail A., Freund, Lisa S., McCune, Sandra, Esposito, Layla, Gee, Nancy R., McCardle, Peggy
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Human-animal interaction and the development of executive functions
Contributor(s): Ling, Daphne S., Kelly, Melissa, Diamond, Adele, Freund, Lisa S., McCune, Sandra, Esposito, Layla, Gee, Nancy R., McCardle, Peggy
