There are a variety of perspectives on wildlife management and conservation, necessitating interdisciplinary research to develop better management strategies. We answered the call to action provided by Teel et al. (2018) to integrate social sciences into conservation and explored an important but understudied issue: views on the international pet-trade of exotic animals. Some pet owners advocate the pet trade as a means to promote conservation, where removing wild animals from their natural habitat could protect them from degraded environments. To gauge how prevalent this attitude is in a cross-national sample, we conducted an online survey that asked 882 participants worldwide to evaluate the pet trade and its relationship with biological conservation. Overall, our survey results showed regional patterns and indicated that younger respondents were more likely to consider international pet trade as a form of acceptable conservation practice compared to older respondents. Education also played a role in shaping views on the pet-trade and indicated that respondents with higher education degrees were less prone to accept pet trade as a substitute for conservation practices. Our research provides novel insights applicable to education programmes and international conservation efforts while highlighting variation in attitudes even among professionals with formal training in natural sciences and ecology.

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驯化异国情调？对国际野生动物宠物贸易态度的在线调查

关于野生动物管理和保护有多种观点，需要跨学科研究以制定更好的管理策略。我们响应了 Teel 等人提供的行动号召。（2018 年）将社会科学纳入保护并探讨了一个重要但未被充分研究的问题：对异国动物国际宠物贸易的看法。一些宠物主人提倡将宠物贸易作为促进保护的一种手段，将野生动物从自然栖息地中移出可以保护它们免受退化环境的影响。为了衡量这种态度在跨国样本中的普遍程度，我们进行了一项在线调查，要求全球 882 名参与者评估宠物贸易及其与生物保护的关系。全面的，我们的调查结果显示了区域模式，并表明与年长的受访者相比，年轻的受访者更有可能将国际宠物贸易视为一种可接受的保护做法。教育在形成对宠物贸易的看法方面也发挥了作用，并表明具有高等教育学历的受访者不太倾向于接受宠物贸易作为保护做法的替代品。我们的研究提供了适用于教育计划和国际保护工作的新颖见解，同时强调了即使在接受过自然科学和生态学正规培训的专业人士之间的态度差异。教育在形成对宠物贸易的看法方面也发挥了作用，并表明具有高等教育学历的受访者不太倾向于接受宠物贸易作为保护做法的替代品。我们的研究提供了适用于教育计划和国际保护工作的新颖见解，同时强调了即使在接受过自然科学和生态学正规培训的专业人士之间的态度差异。教育在形成对宠物贸易的看法方面也发挥了作用，并表明具有高等教育学历的受访者不太倾向于接受宠物贸易作为保护做法的替代品。我们的研究提供了适用于教育计划和国际保护工作的新颖见解，同时强调了即使在接受过自然科学和生态学正规培训的专业人士之间的态度差异。