On June 25, Jan Hooimeijer, MSc, will give a lecture in Meppel on preventing and solving welfare and behavioral problems in children and animals.
Understanding the secret of the preschool teacher plays a major role in this.
When it comes to welfare and behavioral problems, the similarities between parrots/animals and children are remarkable and explainable because the concepts used are based on ethology. Ethology is the science in which animal behavior is observed to understand animal behavior and, in doing so, to learn about the background of human behavior.
Jane Goodall can be considered one of the most famous representatives of ethology, having studied the behavior of chimpanzees in Africa for nearly 60 years. In doing so, Jane Goodall confirmed the remarkable similarities between humans and animals.
Welfare problems and behavioral problems are inextricably linked. Neither appears out of nowhere. Children and animals with welfare and behavioral issues essentially hold up a mirror to parents, teachers, and owners. This means that it often involves an uncomfortable truth that can be very confronting for parents, teachers, and animal owners.
