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'Zoobiquity':                                                                

What Humans Can Learn From Animal Illness

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, a cardiologist at the UCLA Medical Center, coined the term "zoobiquity" to describe the idea of looking to animals and the doctors who care for them to better understand human health.
 
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/22/177452982/zoobiquity-what-humans-can-learn-from-animal-illness