The Other Side of Silence: Rachel Carson's Views of Animals

Bekoff, Marc; Nystrom, Jan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00625.x

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“…Also, this contradicts the notion of “animal rights” which may support the right of animals not to be owned (Hamilton, 2007), or in this case, to be caged and displayed for example, leisure and entertainment purposes. Even so, the study outcomes add to the discussion of the importance of animal welfare (Sneddon et al, 2016) and the quality of animals' lives (Bekoff & Nystrom, 2004) while being caged. Nonetheless, most informants' replies betray that the value they assign to animals (i.e., their life as living beings) is mainly due to the benefits they obtain from them.…”

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Tourists' perceptions of non‐human species in zoos: An animal rights perspective

Christou

Nikiforou

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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This qualitative study aims to reveal tourists' perceptions of non-human species in zoos while adopting an animal rights perspective. Study findings indicate that tourists are concerned about the well-being of animals that are kept in zoos and conceive that animals in zoos are distressed and "unhappy". Yet, they value the outcome of their zoo experience and interaction with animals, thus continue to visit zoos for leisure/educational purposes. The study's findings enable the conceptualisation of zoos, their societal impact, tourists' concerns about animals kept in zoos and the need of tourism stakeholders to transform zoos.

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Tourists' perceptions of non‐human species in zoos: An animal rights perspective

Christou

Nikiforou

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…As such, there 326 is concern over the quality of animals' lives, not over whether animals should be used by humans (Bekoff and Nystrom 2004). There are two important points raised by Bekoff and Nystrom.…”

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Tourism and Animal Welfare

Fennell¹

2013

Tourism Recreation Research

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Millions of animals are used annually in the tourism industry as captives for display and entertainment, as porters and carriers, as quarry to be hunted and fished, as well as for purposes of competition and sport. This paper investigates the extent to which the welfare of animals is considered in tourism, both in theory and practice. The paper broadly examines the concept of welfare from an interdisciplinary standpoint, including how it is defined and measured, the importance of sentience, pain and suffering in understanding welfare, and methods of enhancing animal welfare. The paper expands on animal welfare as it applies to tourism scholarship and tourism industry practice. Zoos and sled-dog tourism are examples used to illustrate animal welfare challenges in tourism, and a number of key questions are included in an effort to move the tourism and animal welfare agenda forward.

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“…4. For more on this, see some of my recent essays and books Bekoff 2000a, b, c;2002a;2004;in press;Bekoff and Nystrom 2004;Bekoff and Sherman 2004;Goodall and Bekoff 2002).…”

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Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Cognitive Ethology as the Unifying Science for Understanding the Subjective, Emotional, Empathic, and Moral Lives of Animals

Bekoff

2006

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In this essay, my response to four papers that were presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in a session devoted to my research on animal behavior and cognitive ethology, I stress the importance of interdisciplinary research and collaboration for coming to terms with various aspects of animal behavior and animal cognition. I argue that we have much to learn from other animals concerning a set of "big" questions including who we are in the grand scheme of things, the role science ("science sense") plays in our understanding of the world in which we live, what it means to "know" something, what some other ways of knowing are and how they compare to what we call "science," and the use of anecdotes and anthropomorphism to inform studies of animal behavior. I ask, Are other minds really all that private and inaccessible? Can a nonhuman animal be called a person? What does the future hold if we continue to dismantle the only planet we live on and persecute the other animal beings with whom we are supposed to coexist? I argue that cognitive ethology is the unifying science for understanding the subjective, emotional, empathic, and moral lives of animals, because it is essential to know what animals do, think, and feel as they go about their daily routines in the company of their friends and when they are alone. It is also important to learn why both the similarities and differences between humans and other animals have evolved. The more we come to understand other animals, the more we will appreciate them as the amazing beings they are, and the more we will come to understand ourselves.

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The Other Side of Silence: Rachel Carson's Views of Animals

Cited by 10 publications

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Tourists' perceptions of non‐human species in zoos: An animal rights perspective

Tourists' perceptions of non‐human species in zoos: An animal rights perspective

Tourism and Animal Welfare

Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Cognitive Ethology as the Unifying Science for Understanding the Subjective, Emotional, Empathic, and Moral Lives of Animals

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