Recognising and Responding to Animal Emotion in a Shared World Hutton Vicki
How is it that depending on setting, the same cat can be perceived as a homeless annoyance, a potential research subject or a thinking and feeling family member? The answer is bound up in our…
Specifikacia Recognising and Responding to Animal Emotion in a Shared World Hutton Vicki
How is it that depending on setting, the same cat can be perceived as a homeless annoyance, a potential research subject or a thinking and feeling family member? The answer is bound up in our perception of non-human animals' capacity to experience emotions, and this book draws on contemporary evidence-based research, observations, interviews and anecdotal case scenarios to explore the growing knowledge base around animal emotion. Acknowledging that animals can experience feelings directly affects the way that they are perceived and treated in many settings, and the author explores the implications when humans apply - or ignore - this knowledge selectively between species and within species.This information is presented within the unique context of a proposed hierarchy of perceived non-human animal emotional abilities (often based on human interpretation of the animal's