Lien vers le podcast de la conférence: https://uptv.univ-poitiers.fr/program/les-animaux/video/51201/les-fondements-de-l-ethique-animale/index.htmlS’intéresser aux fondements de l’éthique animale permet de remettre en perspective les questionnements contemporains dédiés au droit animalier et, de façon plus générale, à la place des animaux dans la s...
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Le présent article revient sur les positions anti-spécistes de certains poètes chinois. Pour ce faire, l’article aborde brièvement la position des « Trois Enseignements » chinois, à savoir le confucianisme, le taoïsme et le bouddhisme ; avant de poursuivre avec la traduction et le commentaire d’une dizaine de poèmes dont l’écriture s’étale sur plus...
Knjiga Človeška ribica in življenje v podzemnem svetu iz zbirke poučnih vodnikov Utripi sveta je letos izšla pri založbi Hart. Napisala jo je izr. prof. dr. Barbara Bajd. Na štiridesetih straneh, bogato opremljenih s slikami in fotografijami, obravnava človeško ribico ali navadnega močerila (Proteus anguinus), edino pravo jamsko dvoživko v Evropi, ...
Published in Acta microbiologica et immunologica Hungarica
Antimicrobial resistance is a relevant "One Health" issue that shows the need of comparison of isolates of different origins. In this way, guidelines for antimicrobial-resistance evaluation in animals are relevant in relation to human sources. This work aims to compare antimicrobial-resistance results of animal isolates considering CLSI and EUCAST ...
Published in Journal of pineal research
Seasonally breeding animals concentrate courtship to a particular time of year such that their offspring will be reared in a favorable environment. In house sparrows, Passer domesticus, primary (gonads) and secondary (song, plumage, beak color, etc) sexual characteristics are expressed differentially depending on the photoperiod. Removal of the pin...
Naked mole-rats are eusocial, hairless mammals that are uniquely adapted to their harsh, low-oxygen subsurface habitat. Although their encephalization quotient, a controversial marker of intelligence, is low, they exhibit many features considered tell-tale signs of highly intelligent species on our planet including longevity, plasticity, social coh...
Published in HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology
In September 1981 police raided the Institute for Behavioral Research (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) seizing a number of macaque monkeys in response to accusations of animal cruelty against the neuroscientist Edward Taub. Over the following decade a volatile battle was fought as Taub, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the nascent animal ...
La relation entre l’Homme et l’animal est une constante, un élément essentiel puisque nous vivons en permanence l’un avec l’autre. Cette relation plus ou moins proche s’exprime par de nombreux aspects, dont une grande partie se rattache directement ou indirectement à la Santé. Toute relation comporte des aspects positifs mais aussi des points négat...
This thesis focuses on human – animal relationships in a densely inhabited city, through the study of discourses about urban birds in the Greater Paris. Since public policies promoting urban biodiversity are growing, this research questions city dwellers’ bird acceptation or reject criteria, as well as management policies implemented in regards bir...
