New human burials from northern Jordan provide important insights into the appearance of cemeteries and the nature of human-animal relationships within mortuary contexts during the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 23,000-11,600 cal BP) in the Levant, reinforcing a socio-ideological relationship that goes beyond predator-prey. Previous work suggests that archaeological features indicative of social co...

The purpose of the study is to explore the influence of demographic and neighborhood factors on the phenomenon of animal maltreatment in an urban setting as well as the association of animal maltreatment with human maltreatment. Using a unique dataset of animal maltreatment from the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the distribution and prevalence of animal neglect,...

Research on domestic violence has identified many factors behind an abused woman’s decision to stay in, rather than leave, the relationship, including economic concerns, psychological issues, and social consequences from society and the woman’s family and friends. The current article expands on Long and McNamara’s (1989) and Bell and Naugle’s (2005) discussions of how operant learning principle...

Influenza type A viruses affect humans and other animals and cause significant morbidity, mortality and economic impact. Influenza A viruses are well adapted to cross species barriers and evade host immunity. Viruses that cause no clinical signs in wild aquatic birds may adapt in domestic poultry to become highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses which decimate poultry flocks. Viruses that cau...

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The oldest known transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) is scrapie which affects sheep and occasionally goats. This disease already seems to have been an animal health issue of agricultural importance in the 18th Century, as suggested by this observation by Claridge (1795): ‘This disorder has been known to be fatal to the greatest part of a flock and is considered as the most calamitous ...

Lewis et al. (1) state that compared to the fairly large number (> 400) of known rodent carcinogens, only a relatively small number of compounds (-20-30) have been shown to be carcinogenic in humans. From this comparison, the authors seem to infer that animal bioassay cancer findings overpredict for human carcinogens. Of course, for most animal carcinogens there are no available epidemiologic d...

Over the past 11,000 years, humans have domesticated a wide range of animals for different purposes designed to serve human economy, society, and religious activities. The resulting mutual dependence between their domestic partners created anthropogenic landscapes sustain protect members. In this paper, we review literature on latest insights in interdisciplinary anthropological research evolut...

Maintaining the attention to bodily difference human and animal ontology has long been constructed on rigid physical characterizations seemingly untouched by culture. In “Reframing the Ethical Issues in Part-Human Animal Research,” Haber and Benham (2012) call into question most of the formal elements of essentialism that an earlier mode of thought took for granted. Two views on the nature of h...