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Can pet ownership tell us anything about ourselves? Do certain personality traits predict the type of pets we own and how we behave towards them? At the Animal Welfare Science […]

The Humane Society and the Animals and Society Institute have announced the winners of the Animals and Society Course Awards for 2010: ‘The Humane Society of the United States, the

THINKK, the think tank for kangaroos, based at the University of Technology Sydney and supported by Voiceless, released two reports late last year examining the killing of kangaroos in Australia.

In 1971, Ace Bourke and John Rendall wrote A Lion Called Christian, the story of a lion from London who returned to Africa. Now an art curator and living in

Marcus Baynes-Rock is conducting research on the relationship between spotted hyenas and people in the town of Harar, Ethiopia. This research follows the lives of individual hyenas as they eke

Marc Bekoff, Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado and a well known Animal Protection proponent, writes a regular blog across a number of issues

Since our website launch in November 2010 a number of people representing a variety of organizations working with or for animals have been in touch via the ‘Join Us’ facility.   

Australian Academics, Artists and Activists Join Forces: Breaking New Ground in Animal Studies Media contacts: Dr Natalie Edwards (Convenor, AASG), +64 211014633 Dr Leah Burns (2011 AASG Conference Convenor), +61