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Don’t Pet the Jaguars: The Consequences of Humanizing Animals

By Filings on Wed, 03/20/19
Society & Culture
Human Nature
Animals

“Every so many months it happens again: someone crosses the barrier into a zoo animal’s cage or encounters an animal in the wild, expecting it to be friendly and docile, only to be confronted with the fact that they are called wild animals for a reason” - Intellectual Takeout

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