Animals as Symbols
Anthropomorphism
Predators
Attitudes Towards Animals
Zoos
100
Generally one of the most popular things to put in a company or sports team logo.
What are animals?
100
People use this to when they talk and think about animals in human terms.
What is anthropomorphism?
100
The predator that seems to have the worst reputation due to human perception.
What is a wolf?
100
The most-liked animal according to 7-point scale study.
What is a dog?
100
An unnatural, created place in which animals do not necessarily display their natural behaviors as they would in their native environment.
What is a zoo?
200
Animals serve as symbolic messengers in this.
What is media?
200
When people place their own desires onto animals to make them seem more human.
What is personification?
200
A famous folk tale that uses our negative feelings towards wolves to teach children to not talk to strangers.
What is "Little Red Riding Hood?"
200
These include humanistic, neutralistic/negativistic, moralistic, and utilitarian.
What are attitude orientations towards animals?
200
This is what zoos are usually used for, despite a part of their aim being for education.
What is entertainment?
300
Some postal services and airlines use this animal to show people their service is fast and reliable.
What is the American eagle?
300
We use this to make sense of actions animals take.
What is explanatory anthropomorphism?
300
Example of a predator eventually remade in the human image to make it more lovable.
What is a bear?
300
Concern for the environment as a system, interrelationships between wildlife and habitats.
What is Ecologistic orientation towards animals?
300
This is what zoos end up creating. They are usually incorrect and actually work against the interests of wildlife preservation.
What are animal stereotypes?
400
91% out of a random sample of 150 preschool books had this.
What are animal characters?
400
Mistaking an animal's show of teeth for a smile when it's really meant to display fear is an example of this.
What is superficial anthropomorphism?
400
A 2003 hunt for coyotes, red foxes, raccoons, and skunks put in place to raise money.
What is "Kill a Varmint?"
400
The type/ age group(s) of people who know the least about animals.
Who are the people with less than a high school education, or older than 75 and younger than 25?
400
They were once displayed alongside animals in zoos/ public exhibits from the 18th and 19th centuries.
What are unusual, deformed, or mentally ill people?
500
Animals may represent a metaphorical device for people to express their feelings about this.
What is the nonhuman world?
500
The only type of anthropomorphism that genuinely helps us view animals as independent creatures living separate lives from humans.
What is applied anthropomorphism?
500
The organization that poisoned about 35,000 coyotes per year during the 1920's.
What is the Bureau of Biological Survey?
500
When animals are juvenilized in form and behavior (associating them with human infant qualities).
When is an animal neotenized?
500
Zoos began to increasingly sought to place the interests of animals first when this gained notice in the 1960's.
What are "animal rights?"
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