{"id":103303,"date":"2024-09-16T22:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/education\/courses\/new-course-page-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:55:59","slug":"wild-animals-in-human-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/education\/courses\/wild-animals-in-human-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild animals in human care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The general objectives of the course:<\/strong><\/p> <p><strong>The course shows how wild animals have always played a major role in human history. It focuses on the changes in this relationship between humans and animals and on the mission of institutions that keep wild animals in human care. Wildlife (mainly, but not exclusively, vertebrates) is a natural resource for the future of humankind, and the class discusses how human influence and pressure on the environment and on the populations of wild species threaten the diversity of wildlife. Human activities have impacted and will impact their original habitats, and undisturbed ecosystems are disappearing. The results of various conservation and other counter measures are also exposed in the class.<\/strong><\/p> <p>&nbsp;<\/p> <p>An increasingly high number of wild animal species have already been domesticated in the last 150 years as farm, laboratory, companion or other pleasure animals, and there will be a much higher number of domesticated animal species in the future. Humans have interacted in the past and in present times with wild animals different ways. It is a fact that more and more wild animal species live in human care in our era. The increase in the number of newly domesticated species also poses important new challenges in the handling, keeping, trade, and professional breeding of animals, so much so that they are the base of new industries in the 21st century. The course presents examples of zoos and other conservation institutions, such as national parks or rescue centres. The course highlights that in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century humans needs wildlife as much as wildlife needs human care. Our societies are showing increasing interest in this area and experts understanding related issues are needed. Approach of the course is interdisciplinary, it blends zoology, social, political science, and practical issues. Similar course is neither available in other universities in Hungary nor in Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p> <p>&nbsp;<\/p> <p>Responsible teacher: Dr. J\u00e1nos G\u00e1l<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general objectives of the course: The course shows how wild animals have always played a major role in human history. It focuses on the changes in this relationship between humans and animals and on the mission of institutions that keep wild animals in human care. Wildlife (mainly, but not exclusively, vertebrates) is a natural<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3837,"featured_media":0,"parent":676,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181769,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103303\/revisions\/181769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}