ArticleDie Naturwissenschaften2018
Beauty ranking of mammalian species kept in the Prague Zoo: does beauty of animals increase the respondents' willingness to protect them?
Article in Die Naturwissenschaften, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The Ultimate List of the Most Frightening and Disgusting Animals: Negative Emotions Elicited by Animals in Central European Respondents.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- The Importance of Human Emotions for Wildlife Conservation.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Empathy and compassion toward other species decrease with evolutionary divergence time.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Human evaluation of amphibian species: a comparison of disgust and beauty.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2019Article
- Human Attitude toward Reptiles: A Relationship between Fear, Disgust, and Aesthetic Preferences.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Snakes Represent Emotionally Salient Stimuli That May Evoke Both Fear and Disgust.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Aesthetic preferences for animals correspond with the species' presence in the worldwide zoos and influence the conservation priorities. Here, we investigated the relationship between the willingness of respondents to protect mammals and some attributed characteristics such as their aesthetic beauty. Further, several methodological aspects of measuring mammalian beauty were assessed. Animal beauty was associated not only with the respondents' willingness to protect the species but also with its attributed dangerousness and usefulness. We found that the most preferred animals were carnivores and ungulates, whilst smaller species of rodents and afrosoricids were unpopular. The main characteristics determining that an animal will be ranked as beautiful were complex fur pattern and body shape. We demonstrated that the position of mammalian species along the 'beauty' axis is surprisingly stable, no matter the form (illustrations vs photographs), context of stimulus presentation (several number of stimuli per family vs one randomly selected species per family), or the method of beauty evaluation (relative order vs Likert's scale).
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