Animals and society

Well-run modern zoos and aquariums do important research and conservation work and teach visitors about the challenges of animals in the wild and the people striving to save them.

Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love.

A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.

Ist jemand »auf den Hund gekommen«, so ist er oder sie in schlimme Umstände geraten.

Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy''s novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities.

With less than twenty species worldwide and only four British and Irish species, the grouse is surprisingly well-known.

Animal Behavior, Second Edition, covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation.

Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities.

Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles.

The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain?

People with Animals emphasizes the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take.

Este volumen profundiza en la representacion de lo animal en la literatura.

Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting.

To what extent, and in what manner, do storytelling practices accommodate nonhuman subjects and their modalities of experience, and how can contemporary narrative study shed light on interspecies interactions and entanglements?

Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future.

A comprehensive guide to Islam's position on animal welfare and the issue of halal.

Vegetarianism is not a diet trend, or the flavor of the month.

Efficient Livestock Handling: The Practical Application of Animal Welfare and Behavioral Science brings together the science-based disciplines of animal behavior and welfare to discuss how knowledge of one area (behavior) can be used to promote the other.

Veganism is so much more than what we eat.

In Kindred Spirits, Anne Benvenuti visits with individuals and groups working in animal conservation, rescue, and sanctuary programs around the world.

In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family.

Is animal labour inherently oppressive, or can work be a source of meaning, solidarity, and social membership for animals?

Exploring how the law can be used to influence, for better and for worse, the lives of the billions of individual animals we call wildlife, this new book focuses not only on the legal issues involved but also on the compelling ethical and moral issues that are inextricably intertwined with our treatment of wild.

It is not surprising that Australian grassfinches are highly popular with ornithologists and aviculturists, for included among the species are one of the most beautiful of all birds - the Gouldian Finch Erythrura gouldiae - and one of the most familiar cagebirds - the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata.

This book provides methods and practical cases and experiences with the aim of stimulating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through the direct engagement of researchers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), citizens, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders and communicators.

Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America.

With the whimsy and heart of The Soul of an Octopus and the surprising details of the very best science writing, The Curious World of Seahorses brilliantly captures the oceans most charismatic and mysterious inhabitant.

A pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 populated by animals.

From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts.

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals?

Through the professional life of Dave Dick, the RSPB's Senior Scottish Investigation Officer between 1984 and 2006, the often murky world of wildlife crime is revealed.

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine.

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today.

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior.

Sie sind bekannt für ihre verblüffende Intelligenz, für das clevere Benutzen von Werkzeugen und für ihr außergewöhnlich soziales Miteinander: Raben und Krähen faszinieren und begleiten Menschen seit jeher.

In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature.

A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

Is God a Vegetarian?

Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human.

New Naturalist Wildfowl provides a much-anticipated overview of the fascinating birds that have become icons of our diminishing wilderness areas.

Gregarious or shy, curious or placid, playful or retiring, all the animals in Traer Scott's newest collection have one thing in common: a sparkling personality!

This book shakes the core of your beliefs on health and diet, but only if you're open-minded enough to comprehend it.

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine.