Attitudes and activities related to urban wildlife: Pet owners and non-owners

By T. Bjerke, Torbjørn Østdahl, J. Kleiven. 2003

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Practical Work at School Reduces Disgust and Fear of Unpopular Animals (2012, background): “This explanation is unlikely, however, because snakes as well as invertebrates are much less preferred by humans than birds (e.g., Bjerke et al., 2003).”
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Student Attitudes toward Snakes (2009, background): “Bjerke, Østdahl, and Kleiven (2003) showed, however, that keeping pets positively infl uenced attitudes to more popular animals such as small birds, squirrels, and dogs but found no eff ects of keeping pets on attitudes to less popular animals like rats, mosquitoes, or beetles (snakes were…”
Does colour matter? The influence of animal warning coloration on human emotions and willingness to protect them (2013, result): “These results corroborate previous research works supporting the low popularity of certain animals over others (e.g. Bjerke et al., 2003; Schlegel & Rupf, 2010) and gender differences in terms of perception of animals (Prokop et al., 2009a,b, 2010a,b; Prokop & Tunnicliffe, 2010).”