What Do Children Think Animals Need? Aesthetic and Psycho-social Conceptions

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-325

  Myers, Oline ^a   Saunders, Carol D ^b   Garrett, Erik ^c  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0345857435     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620303461     Document Type: Article

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