It has been theorized that increased awareness of death, called mortality salience, leads people to have lighter penalties to those who break moral cultural traditions, respond more positively to people who criticize their country, show disrespect for cultural icons, such as flags. give larger rewards to people who uphold cultural standards.
Ted has a broken limbic system in which theorist would speculate because the limbic system is the one responsible for the feelings, emotions or even moods that the brain produces in which Ted has difficulty of showing or inferring his emotions to others and self.
Honestly, I believe that the most reliable resource would be to visit a local animal hospital.
Since it is an experimental veterinary procedure, you won't find much information in books or online. And contacting the local society for veterinarians may not yield results.
The regional people group that made the least amount of inter-island contact would be : Australians.
Interestingly enough, there is only two countries that exist in the whole Australian continents, the new Zealand and the Australian itself