THE ANIMAL TURN
S2E2: Cognitive Ethology with Marc Bekoff
In this episode, Claudia talks to Marc Bekoff about the field of ‘cognitive ethology’ and how researchers can better learn about animals through attentively watching them and taking seriously their personal experiences. They touch on some of the tensions of how you can ‘know’ other animals’ experiences through and why taking the time to understand their worlds is so important.
About Marc Bekoff
Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published 31 books, won many awards for his research on animal behavior, animal emotions (cognitive ethology), compassionate conservation, and animal protection, has worked closely with Jane Goodall, and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He also works closely with inmates at the Boulder County Jail. Marc's latest books are The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age (with Jessica Pierce), Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do, and Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible (with Jessica Pierce) and he also publishes regularly for Psychology Today. Marc and Jessica have a new book called A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans that will be published by Princeton University Press in fall 2021. In 1986 Marc won the Master's age-graded Tour de France. His homepage is marcbekoff.com.
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Recorded 14 August 2020
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The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity and Mental Experience by Donald R. Griffen;
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Rewilding our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence; Hidden tales of yellow snow: What a dog's nose knows - Making sense of scents by Marc Bekoff
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The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees by Karl von Frisch,
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The Private Life of Cows by BBC Scotland;
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Mother Love (1959) Full Film - Monkey Maternal Deprivation Experiments by CBS;
