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Exploring the Relationship between Socio-Demographic Background and Empathy toward Nonhuman Animals in Working Horse Caretakers
Contributor(s):: Luna, Daniela, Vásquez, Rodrigo A., Tadich, Tamara
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Impacts of Cartoon Animals on Human–Alloanimal Relations
Contributor(s):: Dydynski, Jason Mario, Mäekivi, Nelly
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Let 'er Buck: Gender and Animal History in Twentieth-Century American Rodeo
| Contributor(s):: Whitehead, Frank
“Let ‘er Buck” explores the entwined history of gender and human-animal relationships within twentieth-century mainstream American rodeo. It presents six stories from rodeo’s past: three that foreground questions of gender norms across three generations of cowgirl...
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Marine Mammals Before Extirpation: Using Archaeology to Understand Native American Use of Sea Otters and Whales in Oregon Prior to European Contact
| Contributor(s):: Wellman, Hannah P.
Tribal ancestors living on the Oregon coast prior to European contact were skilled fisher-hunter-gatherers residing in a rich environment, home to diverse marine mammals. Euro-Americans over-exploited these marine mammals and drove some species to near extinction. Some marine mammal populations...
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Transformations of Animal Materials in Early Greece
| Contributor(s):: DiBattista, Adam
From the earliest periods of Greek history, bone, antler, ivory, and other materials were consistently created into objects for use within social practices, and archaeological evidence suggests that these objects took on new forms and functions during the Early Iron Age and early Archaic period...
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Alienation, Modernization, and Animal Welfare: Human-Animal Relationships at the Farm, State, and Country Levels
| Contributor(s):: Briscoe, Michael D.
Our relationships with animals are important for us as humans, for the environment, and for the animals themselves. In this dissertation I look at the relationships between humans and animals at three scales: farm, U.S. state, and country. Specifically, I address how factors like economic...
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Technological Choice and Human-Animal Relationships: A Bird’s Eye View from the Rat Islands, Alaska
| Contributor(s):: Taivalkoski, Ariel
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Behind the Tracks: Social and Labor Relations in the United States Horse Racing Industry
| Contributor(s):: Richart, Rebecca Suzann
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American Animals, American Men: Popular Literature from 1830 to 1915
| Contributor(s):: Kelly, Stephen D.
Critics of animal rights often deride the movement’s proponents for having a sentimental, juvenile misconception of what animals really are, an argument bolstered by the fact that few twenty-first-century Americans besides those engaged in the industries of animal exploitation have any...
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Controlling the Uncontrollable: a Grounded Discursive Study of the Human-Animal Relationship “Captured” in the Rogue Elephant
| Contributor(s):: Granden, Michelle
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Interest in Humans: Comparisons between Riding School Lesson Equids and Assisted-Intervention Equids
| Contributor(s):: Lerch, N., Cirulli, F., Rochais, C., Lesimple, C., Guilbaud, E., Contalbrigo, L., Borgi, M., Grandgeorge, M., Hausberger, M.
Little is known about the impact of equine-assisted interventions (EAI) on equids' perception of humans. In this study 172 equids, living in 12 riding centres, were submitted to a standardised human-horse relationship test: the motionless person test. Age, sex, type (horse/pony), housing,...
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Back to the Future: A Glance Over Wolf Social Behavior to Understand Dog–Human Relationship
| Contributor(s):: Giada Cordoni, Elisabetta Palagi
This review focuses on wolf sociobiology to delineate the traits of cooperative baggage driven by natural selection (wolf-wolf cooperation) and better understand the changes obtained by artificial selection (dog-human cooperation). We selected some behaviors of the dog’s...
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The Role of Oxytocin in the Dog–Owner Relationship
| Contributor(s):: Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Franka S. Schaebs, Alina Gaugg, Anne Meinert, Tobias Deschner, Friederike Range
Oxytocin (OT) is involved in multiple social bonds, from attachment between parents and offspring to “friendships”. Dogs are an interesting species in which to investigate the link between the oxytocinergic system and social bonds since they establish preferential bonds with their...
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Human-Animal Relationships in Supported Housing: Animal Atmospheres for Mental Health Recovery
| Contributor(s):: Friesinger, J. G., Birkeland, B., Thorød, A. B.
Being in a relationship with an animal can promote the well-being of people. For many individuals, this usually takes place at home. This study reports about homes for people with mental health problems (with or without co-occurring substance use), who live in supported housing operated by...
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The Perceived Impact of The First UK COVID-19 Lockdown on Companion Animal Welfare and Behaviour: A Mixed-Method Study of Associations with Owner Mental Health
| Contributor(s):: Shoesmith, Emily, Santos de Assis, Luciana, Shahab, Lion, Ratschen, Elena, Toner, Paul, Kale, Dimitra, Reeve, Catherine, Mills, Daniel S.
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Redefining human-animal relationships: an evaluation of methods to allow their empirical measurement in zoos
| Contributor(s):: Patel, F., Whitehouse-Tedd, K., Ward, S. J.
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Negative attitudes of Danish dairy farmers to their livestock correlates negatively with animal welfare
| Contributor(s):: Andreasen, S. N., Sandoe, P., Waiblinger, S., Forkman, B.
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Conducting sensitive social science research about on-farm animal welfare incidents: challenges and approaches
| Contributor(s):: Devitt, C., Kelly, P., Blake, M., Hanlon, A., More, S. J.
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Attitudes of beef producers to disbudding and perception of pain in cattle
| Contributor(s):: Wikman, I., Hokkanen, A. H., Pastell, M., Kauppinen, T., Valros, A., Hanninen, L.
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The relationship between working horse welfare state and their owners' empathy level and perception of equine pain
| Contributor(s):: Luna, D., Vasquez, R. A., Yanez, J. M., Tadich, T.
