Castillo-Huitrón Nathalia M, Naranjo Eduardo J, Santos-Fita Dídac, Estrada-Lugo Erin
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur - Unidad San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico.
Instituto Amazônico de Agriculturas Familiares, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 24;11:1277. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01277. eCollection 2020.
Animals have always been important for human life due to the ecological, cultural, and economic functions that they represent. This has allowed building several kinds of relationships that have promoted different emotions in human societies. The objective of this review was to identify the main emotions that humans show toward wildlife species and the impact of such emotions on animal population management. We reviewed academic databases to identify previous studies on this topic worldwide. An analysis of the emotions on wildlife and factors causing them is described in this study. We identified a controversy about these emotions. Large predators such as wolves, coyotes, bears, big felids, and reptiles, such as snakes and geckos, promote mainly anger, fear, and disgust. This is likely due to the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences that societies have historically built around them. However, in some social groups these animals have promoted emotions such as happiness due to their values for people. Likewise, sadness is an emotion expressed for the threatening situations that animals are currently facing. Furthermore, we associated the conservation status of wildlife species identified in the study with human emotions to discuss their relevance for emerging conservation strategies, particularly focused on endangered species promoting ambiguous emotions in different social groups.
由于动物所代表的生态、文化和经济功能，它们对人类生活一直都很重要。这使得人类建立了多种关系，这些关系在人类社会中引发了不同的情感。本综述的目的是确定人类对野生动物物种表现出的主要情感，以及这些情感对动物种群管理的影响。我们查阅了学术数据库，以确定全球范围内此前关于该主题的研究。本研究描述了对野生动物的情感及其成因的分析。我们发现了关于这些情感的争议。大型食肉动物，如狼、郊狼、熊、大型猫科动物，以及爬行动物，如蛇和壁虎，主要引发愤怒、恐惧和厌恶。这可能是由于社会历史上围绕它们形成的认知、信仰和经历。然而，在一些社会群体中，这些动物因其对人们的价值而引发了诸如幸福等情感。同样，悲伤是因动物当前面临的威胁情况而表达出的一种情感。此外，我们将研究中确定的野生动物物种的保护状况与人类情感联系起来，以讨论它们与新兴保护策略的相关性，特别是针对在不同社会群体中引发模糊情感的濒危物种的保护策略。
