So. There's a interdisciplinary research field called animal studies. I believe those of you who like to Think about animals will find it relevant to your interests. I sure have.

Some of it is animal-welfare and animal-rights related, some of it isn't. Also, it's academic stuff, so expect "difficult language" at times...

*mumble mumble*.. Quality over quantity... *yadda yadda*... here are two open-access and apparently peer-reviewed journals on the subject I managed to dig up:

Antennae
[...] The Journal combines a heightened level of academic scrutiny of animals in visual culture, with a less formal and more experimental format designed to cross the boundaries of academic knowledge, in order to appeal to diverse audiences including artists and the general public alike. Ultimately, the Journal provides a platform and encourages the overlap of the professional spheres of artists, scientists, environmental activists, curators, academics, and general readers. It does so through an editorial mix that combines academic writing, interviews, informative articles, and discussions with an illustrated format, in order to grant accessibility to a wider readership. Deliberately provocative and irreverent, whilst maintaining an academic edge, Antennae has, over the past two years, become an international point of reference for animal and environmental studies in the arts. [...]

Humanimalia
The past twenty-five years have witnessed an extraordinary explosion of interest in human interfaces with non-human animals. Since the publication of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation in 1975 and the beginning of the movement for animal rights, human relationships with animals have become a focus of study in disciplines ranging from archaeology to literary studies, from sociobiology to postcolonial theory. This new attention recognizes that animal/human interfaces have been a neglected area of research, given the ubiquity of animals in human culture and history, and the dramatic change in our material relationships since the rise of agribusiness farming and pharmacological research, genetic experimentation, and the erosion of animal habitats. Our social and legal relationships with animals have become an object of scrutiny through increased animal rights activism, a shift from a discourse of “pets” to one of “companion species,” and the expansion of representations of animals through media, as animals increasingly disappear from our day-to-day experience in the West. [...]


[edit]Here are two more:
http://www.criticalanimalstudies.or.....dies/archives/
http://www.aasg.org.au/animal-studies-journal


And here's one that's not open-access, but seems to be good. Perhaps someone studying at a university can make use of it:

Anthrozoös
Anthrozoös is a quarterly, peer-reviewed publication whose focus is to report the results of studies, from a wide array of disciplines, on the interactions of people and animals. Academic disciplines represented include anthropology, archaeozoology, art and literature, education, ethology, history, human medicine, psychology, sociology and veterinary medicine.