Why do we like some animals - even see them as part of our families - and others not? I think the answer mainly lies in our capability of humanizing an animal. If we can imagine ourself that a certain animal has a character, feelings, a gender etc etc. our brain tells us: this is a human being. And when it is small, has big eyes and it's fluffy, we see it as a little baby. So, so far for a short lesson in psychology in how we emphatise with (some) animals.
Well, what if you change this? What happens when you change the looks of an animal that (in our eyes) usually has no personality, no feelings and
no gender? In my project SAVE THE SNAILS I did just that. and guess what happened...
People wanted to 'resque' the snails. Stole snails out of the exhibitions. Started petitions. Wrote articles on how cruel it was to use animals for a piece of art. - Did all kind of things to protect the exact same animals as they would usually poisen when found in their gardens. —> for the record. no animals were harmed in here. I used special glue and light weight materials. None of the snails bothered their new looks.
They just kept on being snails. The only difference was that people started to see them as 'persons' and with that, people felt that THESE snails could never be killed. So yes, I saved the snails by changing the way people saw them. -
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