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By Bernice Bovenkerk, Jozef Keulartz

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ISBN-13: 9783319442051

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This publication offers mirrored image at the more and more blurry limitations that signify the human-animal courting. within the Anthropocene people and animals have come nearer jointly and this asks for rethinking outdated divisions. to begin with, new medical insights and technological advances result in a blurring of the bounds among animals and people. Secondly, our expanding effect on nature results in a rethinking of the outdated contrast among person animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats results in a blurring among the kinds of untamed and domesticated animals. ultimately, globalization and international weather switch have ended in the fragmentation of average habitats, blurring the previous contrast among in situ and ex situ conservation. during this ebook, researchers on the leading edge in their fields systematically learn the vast box of human-animal kinfolk, facing wild, liminal, and family animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with applied sciences corresponding to biomimicry. This ebook is well timed in that it explores the hot instructions within which our pondering the human-animal dating are constructing. whereas the objective viewers basically includes animal reports students, coming from a variety of disciplines together with philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and picture stories, a number of the themes which are mentioned have relevance past a in simple terms theoretical one; as such the publication additionally goals to encourage for instance biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to mirror on their courting with animals.

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Keulartz and B. Bovenkerk Between Freedom and Captivity Thirdly, in the Anthropocene the boundary between freedom and captivity is becoming blurred. As we noted in the previous section, a variety of positions now exist between wild and domesticated animals and the old division appeared to be that domesticated animals can be kept in captivity without a problem, whereas wild animals needed freedom. However, as Simmons argues, freedom may be in the interest of all animals, whether wild or domesticated.

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