BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST & AUTHOR OF DOG IS LOVE
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About me
I am a behavioral scientist with a fascination for dogs and their wild relatives, a psychology professor who directs the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University in Tempe, the Director of Research at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, IN, and the author of Dog Is Love.
I was born and raised on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, studied at University College London, and got my Ph.D. at Edinburgh University before setting off on my travels. After time at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Duke University, Universität Konstanz, the University of Western Australia and the University of Florida, I came to Arizona State University in 2013.
Over the years I have studied the behavior of many species - ranging from pigeons to dunnarts (a small mouse-like marsupial), but some years ago I found a way to meld my childhood love of dogs with my professional training and now study and teach the behavior of dogs and their wild relatives.
Find out more about the Canine Science Collaboratory
The Canine Science Collaboratory is dedicated to improving the lives of dogs and their people.
Some Canids I Have Known
This is the Capitoline Wolf, arguably the most famous image of the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus.
This is Ginger who joined our family in 2025. She is a retired racing greyhound from Australia and takes her retirement very seriously.
I gave a talk in DC and Xephos couldn't come too
With Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pat Goodman, and a wolf at Wolf Park
A Dire Wolf skeleton at Utah Museum of Natural History
Me with Wynne, the pup Sparky's Service Dogs named after me.
Cemetery for soldiers' dogs at Edinburgh castle in Scotland.
At the fox farm in Akademgorodok, Siberia.
Thank you Sara Pennak for this wonderful design. We have it on our T-shirts too.
Xephos helping develop a new memory task
Hidden in a garden behind a gate house in Regent's Park in London
Xephos enjoying a run round a maze
Jackie collected for orphans on Waterloo station.
With a dingo pup near Melbourne
Dog buried at the San Ten pet cemetery - near Phoenix, AZ.
With my favorite dog in all of Poland. A great beer-buddy.
Thank you Sara Pennak
Xephos trying to look like she knows what's going on