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  2. Interacting with dogs may affect multiple areas of the brain ...

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    Multiple studies have shown the emotional, physiological and cognitive benefits of interactions with animals, especially dogs — such as boosted energy, increased positive emotions or lowered ...

  3. Wildlife tourism - Wikipedia

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    Wildlife tourism mostly encompasses non-consumptive interactions with wildlife, such as observing and photographing animals in their natural habitats. [3] It also includes viewing of and interacting with captive animals in zoos or wildlife parks, and can also include animal-riding (e.g. elephant riding) and consumptive activities such as fishing and hunting, which will generally not come under ...

  4. Anthrozoology - Wikipedia

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    Anthrozoology, also known as human–animal studies (HAS), is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with interactions between humans and other animals. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with other disciplines including anthropology , ethnology , medicine , psychology , social work , veterinary medicine , and zoology .

  5. Human–canine bond - Wikipedia

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    This companionship is most evident in Western countries, such as the United States, where 44% of households were found to be keeping at least one dog as a pet. [ 2 ] On average, female humans tend to have more positive attitudes towards dogs than male humans do, [ 3 ] but studies have demonstrated that both dogs and humans release oxytocin ...

  6. Emotional support animals offer therapeutic benefits - AOL

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    Feb. 27—CHEYENNE — June Smith has the same routine every morning. She wakes up between 4:30 and 5 a.m. to feed her three dogs and parrot. Sadie, a 20-pound Yorkipoo, gets hand-fed soft food ...

  7. Mutualism (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Mutualism can be contrasted with interspecific competition, in which each species experiences reduced fitness, and exploitation, and with parasitism, in which one species benefits at the expense of the other. [2] However, mutualism may evolve from interactions that began with imbalanced benefits, such as parasitism. [3]

  8. Urban wildlife - Wikipedia

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    Humans have lived alongside and near wild animals for centuries, but the expansion of the study of urban ecology has allowed for new information surrounding human-wildlife interactions. [11] Human wildlife conflict can be categorized into disease transmission , physical attacks, and property damage, [ 11 ] and can be inflicted by a range of ...

  9. Social learning in animals - Wikipedia

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    Social learning refers to learning that is facilitated by observation of, or interaction with, another animal or its products. [1] Social learning has been observed in a variety of animal taxa, [2] [3] such as insects, [4] fish, [5] birds, [6] reptiles, amphibians [7] and mammals (including primates [8]).