How can we overcome the good/bad impression over the role of an animal?

According to research**, biased by cultural learning, children have different perceptions on animals and different feelings for them. They like some more, and others, less. We also have a psychological biased framework of how we operate certain animals and how we interpret their contribution, value or their threat or friendliness to ourselves.
As adults, we have a major contribution through pleasant play to help them discover animals from new perspectives that show them that these animals are not good or bad, they are part of a larger picture, and we depend in an ecosystem on each other. This game could make the facilitator curious, and we urge the facilitator to learn different unusual facts about the animals presented on flashcards, so that these facts might bring new perspectives on how to see each animal.
For example, dogs and cows – in different cultures they are seen on turns as either food or divinity. Also, the wolf is seen as being a threat, and a negative predator, after we learnt how to domesticate the goat and the sheep. „But as Midgley (1995) points out, studies of animal behaviour have shown that the wolf is an animal with great affection and loyalty towards its parents, great courage in adversity and a predator that kills only what it needs to survive.”So that has sparkled human imagination and many humans now regard the wolf as an inspiring character to emulate in many respects.” „Ecological literacy, especially, is also an important factor that can attenuate adverse attitudes and behaviours towards animals (Almeida, Vasconcelos&Strecht-Ribeiro, 2014). Children, during their formal education, reflect the perceptions of animals which are normally most frequent in their culture. Misinterpretations of the behaviour of animals are frequent, as in the case of the considered „dirty” mud baths of pigs and boars, a way used by these animals to protect their skin from the sun, to remove parasites or to regulate body temperature. That is why scientific literacy can contribute to a better understanding of animal behaviours, helping kids to rebuild ingrained negative cultural perceptions. This literacy can even help children by raising awareness of the decline of biodiversity, contributing to the preservation of different species and habitats on earth.”
(**Research: Changing negative perceptions of animals through teaching practice: A research in primary education, Journal of Baltic Science Education, Journal Article, 2017, vol. 16, E-ISSN 2538-7138).