There Is No Place Like Home: Behavioral and Physical Home Traits in Humans and Other Animals
Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal, David Eilam
TL;DR
The paper explores how the concept of home influences behavior and identity in humans and animals, showing similarities across species.
Contribution
It introduces the idea of home as a behavioral and spatial anchor across multiple scales, including homeless individuals and animals.
Findings
Home functions as a hub for organizing movement and spatial memory in both humans and animals.
Home-related behaviors converge between human and nonhuman species despite differences in environment.
Homeless individuals and animals develop substitutes for home under transient or displaced conditions.
Abstract
In both humans and other animals, home demonstrates a typical functional organization, as well as behavioral and cognitive perspectives. It is an extension of individual space and accordingly reflects the identity and personification of its inhabitants. Beyond its role as a place of comfort, rest, and intimacy, home functions as a hub and anchor for traveling away from it, organizing patterns of movement, routines, and spatial memories. These, altogether, form a living range that may be considered an extension of home. Indeed, the traits of home manifest across multiple scales, ranging from the individual’s home to hometown, homeland, and, ultimately, Earth itself. Finally, the concept of home is also relevant in both homeless humans and animals that develop behavioral home substitutes under conditions of transience, mobility, or displacement. Collectively, the concept of home-at-large…
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Taxonomy
TopicsHuman-Animal Interaction Studies · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions