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I don't know if you've heard of this website 'wikipedia', if not, you should visit it sometime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology http://en.wikipedia.o

I don't know if you've heard of this website 'wikipedia', if not, you should visit it sometime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology

colechristensen 13y ago
To be fair 'Anthrozoology' was coined in late 2010 and it's quite likely the number of people who might call it their specialty is very small. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology
- droope 13y ago
  http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology%2C%20dentistry&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology%2C%20de...
  - colechristensen 13y ago
    It is not at all clear what point you are trying to make. Put in a little effort.
    - headlights 13y ago
      Anthrozoology has a much lower search interest than dentistry and is localised in the United States.
ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Wikipedia would be the very last place I'd go to verify that a made-up-sounding scientific discipline is real. Any crank worth his salt has authored twenty separate Wikipedia entries before he gets press like this.
goodcanadian 13y ago
It has been a lot of hours, so I doubt very many people will see this, but I'll try. Wikipedia also has an entry on cryptozoology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology That doesn't make it any less of a made up word used by pseudo-scientists to self describe nor does it mean I should give much credence to anything a cryptozoologist says. The key difference is that I know cryptozoology is largely pseudoscience whereas I merely suspect it in the case of anthrozoology. At least the word, "cryptozoology," is a reasonable description of what they are trying to do: the study of hidden animals. Anthrozoologoy translates roughly as man animal study, a term pregnant with meaninglessness. So, let's see what Wikipedia has to say about anthrozoology: "Anthrozoology . . . is the study of interaction between living things." Hey, I have friends who work in that field. They call themselves . . . "ecologists." Or, if you want to limit it to the types of interactions in the article, "animal behaviourists." They might even say that they work on "inter-species communication." So, I apologise for being dismissive of a term I have never heard before used in a context where there are other widely used terms that would seemingly be appropriate. And to any genuine scientists out there studying human animal interactions, I genuinely apologise for my snark. It is unfortunate that my first encounter with the field of "anthrozoology" has been tainted by the inane nonsense in this article. That said, I don't think human-animal interactions have been nearly as neglected as the wikipedia article implies.
headlights 13y ago
You bring spite.

I don't know if you've heard of this website 'wikipedia', if not, you should visit it sometime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology

colechristensen 13y ago

To be fair 'Anthrozoology' was coined in late 2010 and it's quite likely the number of people who might call it their specialty is very small. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology

droope 13y ago
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology%2C%20dentistry&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology%2C%20de...
- colechristensen 13y ago
  It is not at all clear what point you are trying to make. Put in a little effort.
  - headlights 13y ago
    Anthrozoology has a much lower search interest than dentistry and is localised in the United States.

ArbitraryLimits 13y ago

Wikipedia would be the very last place I'd go to verify that a made-up-sounding scientific discipline is real. Any crank worth his salt has authored twenty separate Wikipedia entries before he gets press like this.

goodcanadian 13y ago

It has been a lot of hours, so I doubt very many people will see this, but I'll try. Wikipedia also has an entry on cryptozoology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology That doesn't make it any less of a made up word used by pseudo-scientists to self describe nor does it mean I should give much credence to anything a cryptozoologist says. The key difference is that I know cryptozoology is largely pseudoscience whereas I merely suspect it in the case of anthrozoology. At least the word, "cryptozoology," is a reasonable description of what they are trying to do: the study of hidden animals. Anthrozoologoy translates roughly as man animal study, a term pregnant with meaninglessness. So, let's see what Wikipedia has to say about anthrozoology: "Anthrozoology . . . is the study of interaction between living things." Hey, I have friends who work in that field. They call themselves . . . "ecologists." Or, if you want to limit it to the types of interactions in the article, "animal behaviourists." They might even say that they work on "inter-species communication." So, I apologise for being dismissive of a term I have never heard before used in a context where there are other widely used terms that would seemingly be appropriate. And to any genuine scientists out there studying human animal interactions, I genuinely apologise for my snark. It is unfortunate that my first encounter with the field of "anthrozoology" has been tainted by the inane nonsense in this article. That said, I don't think human-animal interactions have been nearly as neglected as the wikipedia article implies.

headlights 13y ago

You bring spite.