Daniel Bell and Wang Pei’s recent monograph, Just Hierarchy, seeks to defend hierarchical relationships against more egalitarian alternatives. This paper addresses their argument, offered in one chapter of the book, favour a relationship between human nonhuman animals. relationship, Pei argue, should conform what they call “subordination without cruelty:” it is permissible subordinate exploit a...

T HE POLLOWING STUDIES are concerned with the questions of a) how much salt can be put in a rat’s food before it stops eating; b) how much salt can a rat ingest before toxic symptoms set in; and c) the extent to which salt toxicity depends on the amounts of water that a rat drinks in relation to the salt content of its diet. These studies were originally undertaken because of observations made ...

This study aims to analyze the thoughts of Javanese Muslims on cockfighting in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been a custom culture since humans domesticated chickens. At first, it had sacred connotation. eventually devolved into profane gamble. Although Islam banned animals fighting gambling, tradition continued during Islamic era. examines (1) reasons why Muslim enjoys cockf...

Projects to restore nature inevitably disrupt the plants and animals that inhabit the land to be restored. This essay addresses the significance of feral animals. Can feral animals remain in a restored nature? I argue that an answer depends on what we mean by nature and restoration. I present several different conceptions of nature and discuss what their differences mean for the goals of restor...

The study aimed to explore how limited human socialization affects the socio-cognitive abilities and interactions with unfamiliar individuals of a selected group domesticated dogs goats. These animals were raised kept under conditions characterized by socialization, their behavior was assessed using “impossible task” paradigm. found that dogs, history cooperative companionship, exhibited more f...

Stable isotope analyses demonstrate that C 4 plants played an important dietary role in Eurasian prehistory. Uncertainty remains, however, about when and how crops were integrated into the diet of Central Asian populations. Here, authors present ? 13 15 N stable analysis human animal bone collagen from Kyrgyzstan, revealing plant—likely broomcorn millet—consumption third millennium BC. Combinin...

Domesticated species occupy a special place in the human world due to their economic and cultural value. In the era of genomic research, domesticated species provide unique advantages for investigation of diseases and complex phenotypes. RNA sequencing, or RNA-seq, has recently emerged as a new approach for studying transcriptional activity of the whole genome, changing the focus from individua...

Any reader who has grown up with a pet dog cannot have failed to notice that the effects of advancing age in dogs are not very different from those apparent in aging grandparents, except that in calendar time they appear more rapidly. Although domesticated animals may present a special case compared with wild animals that hardly survive to the age of sexual maturity, a few wild animals do survi...