As múltiplas maneiras de ser dos pombos e seus afetos: como pombos e outras aves cativam os seres humanos

Abstract

This article aims to propose a reflection about the captivation of people for some animals, in specific contexts and situations, focuses on the multiple ways of pigeons being and its affection capacity, as well in its distinction towards other birds. These reflections start, mainly, from the unloved others concept and the daily presences to think how far it is the specie that determine some captivation by human beings. Furthermore, once we comprehend the multiple ways of pigeons being and its affection capacity, we can see interactions of these with humans that can be translated by fighting, disgust, control, appreciation, protection and living with. Understanding that these interactions happens in many ways, I shall to think how the unloved others concept may help to think pigeons, once they can be, in specific contexts and situations, a unloved specie by people, but also can be, essentially, in a multiple way.