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Direct linkMyers Jr, Olin; Saunders, Carol; Garrett, Erik – Environmental Education Research, 2004
Understanding how children think about the needs of animals may aid bridging from how they care about individual animals to caring about the environment more generally. This study explored changes with age in children's conceptions of animals' needs, including how such conceptions may extend beyond the individual animal to larger systems and…
Descriptors: Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Children, Animals
