ANIMALS

Question 1

What is the focus of animal geographies?

Answer 1

Humans, animals and plants mixed up in social forms

Question 2

How do we interact with animals on a daily basis?

Answer 2

Direct interactions (pets, wildlife)

Food chains (what we eat)

Indirect interactions (medicines, cosmetics)

Question 3

Animals in biogeography

Answer 3

Studying anthropogenic/colonial changes to animal distributions

Studies animals as part of descriptions of the natural world

19th century Scalter-Wallace classifications of 6 faunal realms

Question 4

Animals in cultural geography

Answer 4

Focusing on animals in understanding cultures

Studying where we place animals, to reveal cultural traits (how is a pig seen to people around the world?)

Question 5

Animals in more than human geography

Answer 5

Focuses on how people live and their relationships with animals

Question 6

Dartmoor ponies in MTHG?

Answer 6

Natural grazers but not economically viable so new opportunities are needed to preserve them

Contraception, tourism and food

Question 7

What is interdisciplinary geography?

Answer 7

An integration (Strober 2010) related to more than one branch of knowledge

Human - social science
Physical - environmental science

Question 8

What are more than human geographies ?

Answer 8

A version of geography with its parameters stretched to better accommodate relations humans have with other things (Lorimer 2014)