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In part, animal studies developed out of the animal liberation movement and was grounded in ethical questions about co-existence with other species: whether it is moral to eat animals, to do scientific research on animals for human benefit, and so on. Animal studies scholars who explore the field from an ethical perspective frequently cite Australian philosopher Peter Singer's 1975 work, Animal Liberation, as a founding document in animal studies. Singer's work followed Jeremy Bentham's by trying to expand utilitarian questions about pleasure and pain beyond humans to other sentient creatures. Another seminal work in the foundation of animal studies is Tom Regan's book The Case for Animal Rights in which he argued from a Kantian perspective that all sentient beings, which he refers to as "subjects-of-a-life", possess intrinsic value and should not be treat as mere receptacles. In this sense, he approaches the question of animal rights from a denotological perspective rather than a utilitarian one

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In addition to works in Philosophy animal history is an emerging field among historians in the past decade. Although thought of as a subset of environmental history, historians have since experimented with writing about animals as though they were individuals with with subjectivity the agency to act on historical events rather than simply as trending factor independent from human control. By putting animals in the forefront historians can reinterpret and analyze events from a new epistomological perspective