Landová Eva, Poláková Petra, Rádlová Silvie, Janovcová Markéta, Bobek Miroslav, Frynta Daniel
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 44, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.
Naturwissenschaften. 2018 Nov 28;105(11-12):69. doi: 10.1007/s00114-018-1596-3.
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).
对动物的审美偏好与物种在全球动物园中的存在情况相对应，并影响保护优先级。在此，我们研究了受访者保护哺乳动物的意愿与一些归因特征（如它们的审美美感）之间的关系。此外，还评估了测量哺乳动物美感的几个方法学方面。动物的美感不仅与受访者保护该物种的意愿相关，还与其归因的危险性和有用性相关。我们发现，最受喜爱的动物是食肉动物和有蹄类动物，而较小的啮齿动物和非洲猬目动物则不受欢迎。决定一种动物被评为美丽的主要特征是复杂的皮毛图案和体型。我们证明，哺乳动物物种在“美感”轴上的位置出奇地稳定，无论形式（插图与照片）、刺激呈现的背景（每个科的多个刺激物与每个科随机选择的一个物种）或美感评估方法（相对顺序与李克特量表）如何。
