"No-one who looks at the evidence can doubt that animals in hand improve the quality of modern human life..." - The Biophilia Hypothesis, S.R.Kellert & E.O.Wilson

NEWS: The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and The Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars, Inc., sponsored a workshop in October, 2008, entitled: "Directions in Human-Animal Interaction Research: Child Development, Health and Therapeutic Interventions." More than 40 of the world's leading scientists in the field of Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) and related disciplines met to review current research and identify key topics for further investigation. This was the first workshop on HAI research held at NIH in more than 20 years, and the first to focus exclusively on the role of pets in childhood and adolescence.  MORE 

Anthrozoology is the study of the relationships between humans and animals.

Anthrozoology is unique in that it studies the role of animals in the lives of humans, and vice versa. It has been called many other things, including "human animal interaction", and the "human animal bond". 

The term Anthrozoology comes from the Greek anthropos , meaning human, and zoon meaning animal.

Research has applications in a growing number of areas including:

• animal assisted therapy (AAT) or pets as therapy,
• animal assisted education,
• humane education,
• the Biophilia Hypothesis, and
• understanding the universal human practice of pet keeping.

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