The Close Ones: Caregivers at the Zoo
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2010.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This paper analyses zookeepers in three French zoos and the prospects their work gives us on human-animal relationship. Distance is central to their definition: they are the closest one to animals and therefore the most knowledgeable about them to their mind but also to the public one. Distance has an impact on keepers and animals nature. Are animals close to humans still wild? How does it come that people throw pop corn to keepers when they are in a cage?
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This paper analyses zookeepers in three French zoos and the prospects their work gives us on human-animal relationship. Distance is central to their definition: they are the closest one to animals and therefore the most knowledgeable about them to their mind but also to the public one. Distance has an impact on keepers and animals nature. Are animals close to humans still wild? How does it come that people throw pop corn to keepers when they are in a cage?
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