Aratana Therapeutics hosted Dr. Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, co-authors of Zoobiquity for a live presentation of their experiences linking connections between human and animal health. Natterson-Horowitz referenced pathologies shared by non-humans and people which are not explicitly infectious such as breast cancer, heart failure, obesity and self-injury.
Source: Inside NAVC, January 19, 2016, page 6.
Zoobiquity is an interdisciplinary field with a strong basis in established science and research from human medicine, veterinary medicine and evolutionary biology, as well as related disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, neurobiology, paleontology and physiology.
INSIGHTS: The connection between humans and animals was explained at a scientific level in this presentation. Zoobiquity is a movement to bring the reality of mammalian health challenges into an interdisciplinary perspective. More than 1.3 million persons have listened to her TED talk.