James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Senior Honors Projects, 2010-current Honors College Spring 2015 Human-animal communication in captive species: Dogs, horses, and whales Mackenzie K. Kelley James Madison University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/honors201019 Part of the Animal Studies Commons, Other Communication Commons, and the Other Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Kelley, Mackenzie K., "Human-animal communication in captive species: Dogs, horses, and whales" (2015). Senior Honors Projects, 2010-current. 18. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/honors201019/18 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Honors Projects, 2010-current by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Human-Animal Communication in Captive Species: Dogs, Horses, and Whales _______________________ An Honors Program Project Presented to the Faculty of the Undergraduate College of Arts and Letters James Madison University _______________________ by Mackenzie K. Kelley May 2015 Accepted by the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, James Madison University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Honors Program. FACULTY COMMITTEE: HONORS PROGRAM APPROVAL: Project Advisor: Shelley Aley, Ph. D., Philip Frana, Ph.D., Associate Professor, WRTC Interim Director, Honors Program Reader: Alex Parrish, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, WRTC Reader: Susan Ghiaciuc, Ph. D., Associate Professor, WRTC PUBLIC PRESENTATION This work is accepted for presentation, in part or in full, at the JMU Honors Symposium on April 24, 2015 . I would like to dedicate this honors research thesis to my parents, John and Karen.