The Companion Avian Manifesto: The Value of Birds are Our Patients and Pets
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The Companion Avian Manifesto: The Value
of Birds as Our Patients and Pets
Jeleen Briscoe, VMD, DABVP (Avian)University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
LoraKim Joyner, DVM, MPVM, M.Div.Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
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Welcome and Introduction
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Goals• Use hands-on examples to understand how
being human affects how we interact with and view our staff, owners, patients, and pets
• Understand how birds and humans have benefitted from each other over time
• Learn more about avian and human nature• Understand the power of language and
communication skills to motivate self and others to care for birds
• Have fun
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Outline of Class• Introduction• Cost/Benefit Analysis• Understanding Avian and Human Nature • How Humans Comprehend Nature:• Language & Social Constructs Exercise• Religion & Ethics Exercise• Call to Action Role-Play• Conclusion and Evaluation
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Cost/Benefit Analysis
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Cost/Benefit Analysis
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Understanding Avian and Human Nature
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Avian Nature
• Class Aves: over 8700 members
• Most modern-day avian Orders are 35 million years old
• Traditional research on animal brains:
• Primates used to evaluate intelligence
• Birds used as models for associative learning
• Recent recognition of cognitive abilities of corvids and parrots
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Corvids, Parrots, and Primates
• Large relative forebrain size
• Evolutionary pressures of a constantly changing physical and social environment
• Omnivorous, generalist foragers
• Socially complex group-living
• Prolonged developmental period
• Relatively long life-span
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“Bird Brains”
• Traditional mammal model: six-layered neocortex
• Semantics: “-striatum” = basal ganglia = bird behavior is instinctual
• Actually, bird brains are derived from the pallium, just like mammalian brains
• Parallel evolution
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Evolutionary Ecology and the Avian Brain
• Correlation between relatively large brain size in parrots and corvids and:
• High innovation rate
• Tool use
• Larger relative telencephalon size in “transactional” vs. solitary avian species
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Adaptive Specialization & Study of Avian Brain
• Social Learning
• Fisher & Hinde: blue tits and the milk bottles
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Anthropocentric Study of Avian Brain
• Concepts and categorization
• Watanabe’s art pigeons
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Combining Ecology and Anthropocentrism
• Episodic-like memory
• Clayton & Dickenson and scrub jay caching of perishable foods
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Combining Ecology and Anthropocentrism
• Ecological importance of adaptive exploration
• Mettke-Hoffman and neophobia in parrots
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Avian Nature
• Scientific proof of avian intelligence
• Cognitive ornithology
• Evaluation of birds for their abilities within an ecological context
• Power in science
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Human Nature
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How Humans Comprehend Nature: Language and Cultural Constructs
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How Humans Comprehend Nature
• Action and Thought
• Human attitudes towards animals: typologies
• Similarity principle and likeability of a species
• Language and Social Constructs
• Words used in reference to birds
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Exercise
1. Based on the word used, is the bird more subject or object?
2. Rank or describe what kind of care a human would be motivated to provide for the bird based on the word used to describe it
3. Think about instances where a certain word can influence how willing a human would be to care for the bird
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How Humans Comprehend Nature: Religion and Ethics
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Call To Action
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Conclusion and Evaluation