Human-Animal Interaction

Enrichment: the human touch

The importance of human interactions are emphasized.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Rice, T. R. 2001. Enrichment: the human touch. Tech Talk [The Newsletter for Laboratory Animal Science Technicians] 6(3), 2.

Development of the human-research animal bond and its impact on animal well-being

The various roots of human-animal bonding in the research laboratory setting are reviewed. The development of these relationships is enriching to both personnel and animals inasmuch as people who care about their animals are committed to promoting and ensuring the...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Bayne, K. 2002. Development of the human-research animal bond and its impact on animal well-being. ILAR Journal 43(1), 4-9.

Human-animal bonds in the laboratory: How animal behavior affects the perspectives of caregivers

People are attracted by the animals to become caregivers in laboratories, which points to the importance of providing caregivers opportunities for rewarding interactions with the animals. Opportunities that enhance the comfort of the animals and increase the performance of a...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Chang, F. T., Hart, L. A. 2002. Human-animal bonds in the laboratory: How animal behavior affects the perspectives of caregivers. ILAR Journal 43(1), 10-18.

Ethical aspects of relationships between humans and research animals

More often than not, moral dilemmas are the result of good people trying to do the right thing when the right thing is unclear [p. 29]. I have spoken with some animal care staff who have complained about investigators who...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Herzog, H. 2002. Ethical aspects of relationships between humans and research animals. ILAR Journal 43(1), 27-32.

Ethical implications of the human-animal bond

Researchers must continue to question the barriers that have traditionally been erected against forming HABs [human-animal bonds] in the name of objectivity and to investigate seriously the ways in which fostering the formation of HABs can promote animal welfare without...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Russow, L.-M. 2002. Ethical implications of the human-animal bond. ILAR Journal 43(1), 33-37.

Prediction and preparation: Pavlovian implications of research animals discriminating among humans

The presence of humans as possible confounding variables is discussed. Human subjects are rarely if ever passive sources of data in studies involving animals.

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Davis, H. 2002. Prediction and preparation: Pavlovian implications of research animals discriminating among humans. ILAR Journal 43(1), 19-26.

An additional R – Remembering the animals

The need to recognize the existence of bonds between caregivers and their animals is discussed. Involvement in a venue to acknowledge the contributions animals make to teaching, testing, and research can be a satisfying and meaningful experience.

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Iliff, S. A. 2002. An additional R - Remembering the animals. ILAR Journal 43(1), 38-47.

Developing a close bond with research animals

Developing a close bond with research animals can only be a good thing. I have seen the results of both and was very disturbed when people seemed to regard the animals only as test subjects and not as living beings....

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Hunnicutt, T. 2002. Developing a close bond with research animals. Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum (electronic discussion group), October 29, 2002.

Implications of Human-Animal Interactions and Bonds in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue

Introduction to ILAR's issue Implications of Human-Research Interactions and Bond in the Laboratory. I was encouraged not to assign names to the many rhesus monkeys in my charge. I was admonished that the animals are research subjects, not pets. The...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Wolfle, T. L. 2002. Introduction. ILAR Journal 43(1), 1-3.

Laughing rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy?

Rapid finger movements across the nape, where rats usually solicit play, followed by tickling of the bellly simulates the rat's own playful interaction. Recent affective neuroscience research has yielded the discovery of play- and tickle-induced ultrasonic vocalization patterns ( approximately...

Year Published: 2003Topics: Emotion, Pain, & Sentience, Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J. 2003. Laughing rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy? Physiology and Behavior 79, 25-38.