Effects of captions on viewers' perceptions of images depicting human-primate interaction.

Autor: Freund CA; Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA.; Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami, Florida, USA., Cronin KA; Lincoln Park Zoo Animal Welfare Science Program, Chicago, Illinois, USA., Huang M; Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA., Robinson NJ; Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Yoo B; Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA., DiGiorgio AL; Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.; Writing Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology [Conserv Biol] 2024 Jun; Vol. 38 (3), pp. e14199. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 14.
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14199
Abstrakt: Promoting human contact with wildlife can be harmful to animal conservation and welfare by exposing animals to unsafe situations and driving demand for wildlife tourism and exotic pets. Conservationists and researchers justifiably use social media to raise awareness, but professionals posting pictures of themselves with animals can have unintended negative consequences for conservation. Though the International Union for Conservation of Nature Best Practice Guidelines for Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates suggests researchers and animal professionals provide context in captions of images of humans interacting with primates, there is little research investigating whether this approach is effective. We investigated whether informative captions affect viewers' desires to have primates as pets and attitudes toward wildlife conservation. Using 4 mock Instagram posts depicting human-gorilla and human-slender loris interactions, we surveyed 2977 respondents to assess the effect of captions on viewers' perceptions of the images and primate conservation. Likert scale response data were analyzed with ordered probit regression models. Captions clearly contextualizing an image as research resulted in a significantly higher agreement that posts depicted wildlife research (gorilla β = 0.28 [SE 0.06], p < 0.001; loris β = 0.18 [0.06], p = 0.002), but such captions resulted in no significant difference in responses regarding viewers' desires to own primates as pets or questions regarding the primates' conservation statuses. Although most participants agreed the primates were endangered, more than 56% and 59%, respectively, stated they would have a gorilla or loris as a pet, that they would make good pets, or both, further supporting the conclusion that captions do not minimize harmful impacts of images of human-primate interactions.
(© 2024 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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