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Assessing preferences and motivations for owning exotic pets: Care matters
| Contributor(s):: Anna Hausmann, Gonzalo Cortés-Capano, Iain Fraser, Enrico Di Minin
Understanding drivers of demand for exotic pets may help inform adequate conservation strategies to address unsustainable trade. Here, we used a best-worst scaling approach to understand the variety of preferences and motivations for owning exotic pets. Respondents (316 from 33 countries)...
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animal groups
| Contributor(s):: S. Mazzola, M. Albertini
Interactions that animals experience can have a significant influence on their health and welfare. These interactions can occur between animals themselves, but also between animals and keepers, and animals and the public. Human and non-human animals come into contact with each other in a...
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To Protect or to Kill? Environmental Contingent Self-Worth Moderates Death Prime Effects on Animal-Based Attitudes
| Contributor(s):: Fairlamb, S., Stan, A. E., Lovas, K.
Lifshin et al. found that death primes increased support for killing animals, suggesting that the killing of animals serves a terror management function. The present research adds to this by suggesting that protecting animals can also serve a terror management function when people see such...
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Family Bonds with Pets and Mental Health during COVID-19 in Australia: A Complex Picture
| Contributor(s):: Bennetts, S. K., Howell, T., Crawford, S., Burgemeister, F., Burke, K., Nicholson, J. M.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the health-promoting features of human-animal relationships, particularly for families with children. Despite this, the World Health Organization's (1986) Ottawa Charter remains human-centric. Given the reciprocal health impacts of human-animal...
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Not All Puppies and Sunshine: How Dog Keepers Cope with Dog-Related Problems in Dutch Society
| Contributor(s):: Ophorst, Susan, Aarts, Noelle, Bovenkerk, Bernice, Hopster, Hans
Zoonoses, biting incidents, hereditary problems, and other issues can threaten the welfare of both humans and dogs. The Dutch government and animal welfare organizations seem to have little effect in their campaigns to influence the behavior of (potential) dog keepers, who can experience...
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Genetic and environmental parameters for behavioural responses towards humans in farmed ostriches
| Contributor(s):: Muvhali, Pfunzo T., Bonato, Maud, Engelbrecht, Anel, Malecki, Irek A., Cloete, Schalk W. P.
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Are early-life lambs’ characteristics and behavioural reactivity related to later survival and growth performance during artificial feeding?
| Contributor(s):: Mialon, Marie-Madeleine, Nowak, Raymond, Falourd, Patricia, Marcon, Didier, Lardy, Romain, Boivin, Xavier
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Horses' Tactile Reactivity Differs According to the Type of Work: The Example of Equine-Assisted Intervention
| Contributor(s):: Rochais, C., Lerch, N., Gueguen, L., Schmidlin, M., Bonamy, O., Grandgeorge, M., Hausberger, M.
Tactile perception in humans varies between individuals and could depend on extrinsic factors such as working activity. In animals, there is no study relating the influence of animals' work and their tactile reactivity per se. We investigated horses' tactile reactivity using von Frey...
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Attitudes of wildlife park visitors towards returning wildlife species: An analysis of patterns and correlates
| Contributor(s):: Ostermann-Miyashita, Emu-Felicitas, Pernat, Nadja, Koenig, Hannes J., Hemminger, Karoline, Gandl, Nina, Bellingrath-Kimura, Sonoko Dorothea, Hibler, Sophia, Kiffner, Christian
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Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the cat-owner relationship scale (CORS-BR)
| Contributor(s):: Luchesi, Suzana Helena, Machado, Daiana Souza, Trindade, Pedro Henrique Esteves, Otta, Emma
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Training Dogs with Science or with Nature? An Exploration of Trainers’ Word Use, Gender, and Certification Across Dog-Training Methods
| Contributor(s):: Johnson, Anamarie C., Wynne, Clive D. L.
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Dogs Feared and Dogs Loved: Human-Dog Relations in the Late Ottoman Empire
| Contributor(s):: Gündoğdu, Cihangir
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Feral pharmaceuticalization-Biomedical uses of animal life in light of the global donkey hide trade
| Contributor(s):: Gameiro, Mariana Bombo Perozzi, Quet, Mathieu
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The effects of part-time dam-contact and stepwise weaning and separation on the voluntary human approach behaviour of dairy calves
| Contributor(s):: Bertelsen, Maja, Steinerová, Karolina, Jensen, Margit Bak
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Human and canid relationships: a comparative stable isotope analysis of domestic dog (^Canis familiaris^) and red fox (^Vulpes vulpes^) from Kodiak Island, Alaska
| Contributor(s):: C.A. West, Christine A.M. France
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Let's Treat Each Other More Like Dogs | Ryan Matthews | TEDxSkyforest
| Contributor(s):: Ryan Matthews
What are the lifelong lessons dogs can teach us? Former elite military dog trainer and published author, Ryan Matthews, shares what dogs have taught him about human relationships. Perhaps it's no coincidence that dog spelled backward is G-o-d! Decorated veteran, gifted dog trainer and...
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The relationships between attitudes, personal characteristics and behaviour of stockpeople on dairy goat farms
| Contributor(s):: Mersmann, D., Schmied-Wagner, C., Waiblinger, S.
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Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals
| Contributor(s):: McGuire, Luke, Fry, Emma, Palmer, Sally, Faber, Nadira S.
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Psychometric validation of the Brazilian Version of the Pet Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ): An examination of predictors of attachment styles among cat owners
| Contributor(s):: Luchesi, Suzana Helena, Machado, Daiana Souza, Trindade, Pedro Henrique Esteves, Mikulincer, Mario, Otta, Emma
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Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)
| Contributor(s):: de Mouzon, C., Gonthier, M., Leboucher, G.
