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Wild minds: what people think about animal thinking
| Contributor(s):: Maust-Mohl, M., Fraser, J., Morrison, R.
The question of how nonhuman animals think is pervasive in the scientific and popular media, yet there is an apparent lack of concordance between findings from research in animal cognition and how this information emerges in popular discourse. The present study investigated the way people...
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Wildlife conservation and animal welfare: two sides of the same coin? (Special Issue: Conservation and animal welfare.)
| Contributor(s):: Paquet, P. C., Darimont, C. T.
Human activities deprive wild animals of their life requisites by destroying or impoverishing their surroundings, causing suffering of individuals. Yet, the notion that animal welfare applies to wildlife has escaped many animal welfarists and conservationists. A well-accepted and applied ethical...
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With man's best friend
| Contributor(s):: Collins, J. M., Lorber, B., Schlossberg, D.
This chapter focuses on human diseases associated with exposure to dogs. The epidemiology of local infections following dog bites, as well as the initial bite management, antibiotic prophylaxis, antibiotic treatment of infection, and prevention of dog bites are discussed. The life-threatening...
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Working with rather than against macaques during blood collection. (Training Nonhuman Primates Using Positive Reinforcement Techniques)
| Contributor(s):: Reinhardt, V.
Training macaques to cooperate during blood collection is a practicable and safe alternative to the traditional procedure implying forced restraint. It takes a cumulative total of about 1 hr to train an adult female or adult male rhesus macaque successfully to present a leg voluntarily and accept...
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Workplace injuries in Thoroughbred racing: an analysis of insurance payments and injuries amongst jockeys in Australia from 2002 to 2010
| Contributor(s):: Curry, B. A., Hitchens, P. L., Otahal, P., Si, Lei, Palmer, A. J.
Background: There is no comprehensive study of the costs of horse-related workplace injuries to Australian Thoroughbred racing jockeys. Objectives: To analyse the characteristics of insurance payments and horse-related workplace injuries to Australian jockeys during Thoroughbred racing or...
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You are what you eat: meat, novel protein foods, and consumptive freedom
| Contributor(s):: Beekman, V.
Animal husbandry has been accused of maltreating animals, polluting the environment, and so on. These accusations were thought to be answered when the Dutch research program "Sustainable Technological Development" (STD) suggested a government-initiated conversion from meat to novel...
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You eat what you are: moral dimensions of diets tailored to one's genes.
| Contributor(s):: Meijboom, F. L. B., Verweij, M. F., Brom, F. W. A.
Thanks to developments in genomics, dietary recommendations adapted to genetic risk profiles of individual persons are no longer science fiction. But what are the consequences of these diets? An examination of possible impacts of genetically tailor-made diets raises morally relevant concerns that...
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Young adults' attachment to pet dogs: findings from open-ended methods
| Contributor(s):: Kurdek, L. A.
Turning to someone in times of emotional distress (safe haven) is one key feature of an attachment bond. Aspects of pet dogs as sources of safe haven were examined with open-ended methods for two samples of young adults who were college students (total n=566, mean age=19.24 years). Based on...
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Young horses' reactions to humans in relation to handling and social environment
| Contributor(s):: Sondergaard, E., Halekoh, U.
Forty Danish warmblood colts in two replicates were used to investigate the effect of housing and handling in the rearing period on the reactions to humans. The horses entered the experiment after weaning and were housed either individually (n=16) or in groups of three (n=24). Half of the horses...
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Zoo animals and their human audiences: what is the visitor effect?
| Contributor(s):: Hosey, G. R.
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Zoo playgrounds: a source of enrichment or stress for a group of nearby cockatoos? A case study
| Contributor(s):: Collins, C. K., Marples, N. M.
There is increasing evidence that in some circumstances, zoo visitors may be aversive stimuli to nonhuman animals housed in zoos. Yet, most previous research has focused on primates with little attention given to numerous other species who are housed in zoos. The focus animal of this project was...
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ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEAR EASTERN PREHISTORY Foreword
| Contributor(s):: Arbuckle, Benjamin S., Makarewicz, Cheryl A., Atici, A. Levent
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Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism: fruitful fallacies? (Special Issue: Knowing animals.)
| Contributor(s):: Webster, J.
Zoo- and anthropomorphism may both be scientific heresies but both may serve as a basis for thought (and real) experiments designed to explore our ability to assess quality of life as perceived by another sentient animal. Sentience, a major contributor to evolutionary fitness in a complex...
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Zoomorphy: animal metaphors for human personality
| Contributor(s):: Sommer, R., Sommer, B. A.
We conducted three studies on the use of nonhuman animals as metaphors (zoomorphs) for human personality characteristics. In Study 1 (n=51) university students rated gender, age, and favorableness of 36 mammal names when applied metaphorically to a person. In Study 2, we searched 14 dictionaries...
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Zoonoses, public health, and the backyard poultry flock
| Contributor(s):: Grunkemeyer, V. L.
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Zoonotic disease risks for immunocompromised and other high-risk clients and staff: promoting safe pet ownership and contact
| Contributor(s):: Stull, J. W., Stevenson, K. B.
Pets can be a source of disease (zoonoses) for humans. The disease risks associated with pet contact are highest among young children, the elderly, pregnant women, and immunocompromised hosts. These individuals and household members display limited knowledge of pet-associated disease, rarely...
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Zoonotic disease risks for immunocompromised and other high-risk clients and staff: promoting safe pet ownership and contact
| Contributor(s):: Stull, J. W., Stevenson, K. B.
Pets can be a source of disease (zoonoses) for humans. The disease risks associated with pet contact are highest among young children, the elderly, pregnant women, and immunocompromised hosts. These individuals and household members display limited knowledge of pet-associated disease, rarely...
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Zoonotic poxviruses associated with companion animals
| Contributor(s):: Tack, D. M., Reynolds, M. G.
Understanding the zoonotic risk posed by poxviruses in companion animals is important for protecting both human and animal health. The outbreak of monkeypox in the United States, as well as current reports of cowpox in Europe, point to the fact that companion animals are increasingly serving as...
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Zootherapy: a practice essential
| Contributor(s):: Peixoto, G. C. X., Bezerra Junior, R. Q., Ge, D. R. F., Oliveira, A. R. M. de, Fonseca, Z. A. A. de S.
In the different periods of human history is possible to notice the linking and interaction of the human beings of different ages with the most diverse sorts of animals, be them production animals, wild animals, the ones kept in zoos, laboratory animals for research or simply being part of our...
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[Dealing with grief] Der Umgang mit Trauer
| Contributor(s):: Moller, H.
