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anthrozoology, study of the interactions and relationships between human and nonhuman animals. Anthrozoology spans the humanities and the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. While the lives of humans and nonhuman animals have always been intertwined, the ways that humans relate to and think about members of other species became the focus of systematic study only in the late 20th century. The development of anthrozoology as an academic discipline was spurred by reports that there were health and psychological benefits to interacting with animals and by the establishment of the academic journals Anthrozoös in 1987 and Society & Animals in 1993. ...(100 of 446 words)

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