Service animal Service animals can be of many species and come in many sizes. Dogs, cats, dolphins, miniature horses, monkeys, ducks, ferrets, and parrots have all been trained to perform specific duties of a service animal, though the type of animal that may be registered as a "service animal" may vary depending on legal definitions. The people that can qualify for a service animal can have a range of physical and/or mental disabilities. A "guide animal" is an animal specifically trained to assist visually impaired persons to navigate in public. These animals may be trained to open doors, recognize traffic signals, guide
Animal Sentience (journal) Animal Sentience (journal) Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling is a multidisciplinary academic journal. Its subject matter, animal sentience, concerns what animals think and feel, and the journal also covers methods through which scientists and scholars can study this and make the information available to the general public. The journal is published by the Institute for Science and Policy of The Humane Society of the United States, and the editor-in-chief is Steven Harnad, founder of the journal "Behavioral and Brain Sciences". "Animal Sentience" launched in 2015. Its first issue appeared in 2016, and was in the news for