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Show 7 Cinnon UiGUJpoinis i In a study that attempts to illuminate human altitudes Inward wildlife. Dr. Steven R. Kellert. of Yale University's Sciences Study Center, lias (denuded seven classes of human viewpoints toward wild animals. They are naturalism, na-turalism, ecologism. humanism. moraJism. scien-tism. scien-tism. esthencism. and dominionism. THE REPORT is the first pari of a two-part study financed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Kellert interviewed in-terviewed 65 pe.ple who have a direct involvement with animals in order to identify and categorize the various reactions people have toward wildlife. While he cautions against using the frequencies of people in the various categories because of the limited and selected samples, the classification system is probably as comprehensive as any yet established. Kellert defines the basic attitude at-titude orientations as follows: NATURALISM: Those with an overriding interest and affection af-fection for anything connected with the out-of-doors, wild-ness, wild-ness, naturalness, the primitive. primi-tive. Ecologism: Those who in a broad sense are interested in ecosystems, reflecting an impersonal im-personal involvement with nature and animals. HUMANISM: THOSE interested in animals primarily as pets, regarding them as friends and companions, com-panions, or even part of the family. Morahsm: This group tends to see animals as having rights roughlv equivalent to those possessed by people. Thev object strongly to any harm or suffering inflicted upon animals. SCIENTISM: Those who generally view animals as objects ob-jects of studv. Aesthetictsm: Those who are convinced that aesthetic worth is its own justification. DOMIMOMSM: The group who believes that animals exist prmanly for the benefit of human beings. Of those interviewed, people with a primary attitude orientation orien-tation toward morahsm comprised the largest single group. although the dominionistic. humanistic and naturalist ic group ranked in the middle, and the scien tists and aesthetic : nificantlv smaller 'i AS MltjHT he those class. I,ta moralistic group y J ' hunting is inherent j'" " as did most of humanistic jro ' '' approximately t,i t ecoloRistic, K'iea.,s.;' '-aesthetic '-aesthetic groups ij. '' quarter to those ' ' luralistic characif. had a deep and brr; ." in wildlife per se Most of the peopi. .. ecotogistic gT-nup v.. ' numbers of inose ;," moralist, scienm-( aesthetic group, v view. About hall of t'. humanistic and rkm.. ' ! groups had a spmn ,. in wildlife. " ; THE SECOND pan v . study which Mill ln .. .. it terviews with n-; . selected American! . j ; available at a laier da l |