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Animal behavior research is particularly relevant ... loving relationships with house pets will endure. Are pets good for children’s health? Created with Sketch. Generally yes.

How do animals raise their young? Some don't care for their offspring at all, and some families all pitch in.

Many social behaviors of animals are adaptive ... s direct fitness is measured by copies of her own genes passed on to children, grandchildren, and so on, whereas indirect fitness is the measure ...

Veterinarians and animal behavior researchers say animals can ... this dynamic loosely to older generations of parents who hit children only to have that action manifest itself into aggressive ...

Yet these grim details are relatively unknown, even to experts in animal behavior or psychology. The shocking images of what happened to the dogs in the service of science are far from the public ...