Dog Days Are Over
The star of numerous films and advertising campaigns, this dog's fame illustrates Americans' changing perspectives on dogs.
Who is Rin Tin Tin?
Used to produce whale oil for lubrication and lamp fuel, this body part was most valued by the crews of whaling ships.
What is blubber?
This term describes the process through which humans place animals in categories that are equal parts scientific and socially constructed.
What is classification?
Whether they are seen as "living machines" or simply inferior to humans, animals are often treated as this economic term.
What are commodities?
Most commonly used for dogs, this term refers to an animal which has been selectively bred to display certain attributes.
What is a purebred?
What is the Brown Dog?
A subcategory of zoology, this term refers to the scientific study of fish.
What is ichthyology?
Taking place over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, this period of scientific, cultural, and philosophical innovation reduced animals to "living machines."
What is the Enlightenment?
Until its repeal in the 1990s (though its systemic consequences persist today), this system of racial segregation kept white South Africans in power at the expense of the indigenous Black population for decades.
What is Apartheid?
Though it can also refer to a particular breed of racehorse, this term describes any horse which has been selectively bred according to a set of standards.
What is a thoroughbred?
Implemented during the Second World War, this program asked Americans to donate their canine family members to the armed forces.
What is the Dogs for Defense program?
As discussed by guest lecturer Lillian Young, this military initiative sought to use whales and other aquatic life for a variety of defense purposes.
What is the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program?
Genetically engineered to ensure consistent test results, this white rodent has become a staple of medical research labs around the world.
What is the Wistarat?
Whether in India, South Africa, or the Jim Crow South, this term refers to a fixed social group into which humans are sorted based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc.
What is caste?
This term also refers to animals which have been selectively bred to display certain traits, but is usually reserved for livestock such as cattle or chickens.
What is an improved breed?
What are Africanis dogs?
Initially believed to be their own distinct species, these Central American aquatic predators were later determined to be identical to their Caribbean neighbors.
What are the Lake Nicaragua Sharks?
Overseeing all facilities that conduct research on live, vertebrate animals, this five-letter federal review board offers digital training which you all sampled this semester.
What is IACUC?
Ostensibly meant to regulate the ownership of especially dangerous dogs, these laws are the result of both unreliable data and racism.
What is Breed-Specific Legislation (BSL)?
Most dramatically seen in our lecture on cattle, this term refers to the practice of breeding closely-related animals to preserve and emphasize certain traits.
What is in-and-in breeding?
Bred by white settlers of Dutch descent, this South African dog breed continues to be a four-legged representation of structural racism.
What is the Boerboel?
Coined by W. Jeffrey Bolster, this term describes how human understandings of healthy aquatic populations have usually relied on inaccurate assumptions about the size of those populations in the past.
What is Shifting Baseline Syndrome?
Concisely encapsulating the standards of federally-compliant animal research, these three terms each begin with the letter R.
What are Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement?
In her interview about her book, Afro-Dog, Benedicte Boisseron describes this term as the "common enemy" of marginalized people and animals.
What is supremacy?
The opposite of inbreeding, this term refers to the practice of combining two distinct breeds of animals in order to obtain the best characteristics of each.
What is crossbreeding?