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VetBooks.ir studied under Louis M. Herman at the Gordon M. Burghardt is alumni distin-
guished service professor in the Departments
Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory.
He is a fellow of the American Psychological
Biology at the University of Tennessee. He
Association (Division 6) and Association for of Psychology, and Ecology and Evolutionary
Psychological Science. He has studied animal received his PhD in biopsychology from the
senses, cognition, and behaviour in a variety University of Chicago and his research focus
of species including manatees, bottlenose has been on comparative studies of behav-
dolphins, humpback whales, sea turtles, hon- ioural development in species as diverse as
eybees, and humans. In recent years he has turtles, bears, lizards, stingrays, spiders,
focused on a broad survey of manatee senses, crocodilians, and, especially, snakes. He has
including vision, hearing, and touch. He has worked on many topics involving snakes
also investigated magnetoreception by ceta- including sensory perception, foraging, and
ceans and sea turtles, hearing by dolphins prey capture, antipredator behaviour, social-
and sea turtles, imitation and synchronous ity, multiple paternity, sexual dimorphism,
behaviour of dolphins, humpback whale colour and pattern variation, environmental
behaviour, and memory in honeybees. enrichment, learning, genetics, conservation,
ethical treatment, and mating systems. He
Sabrina Brando is director of animal welfare has served or is serving as editor or editorial
consulting company AnimalConcepts and 247 board member of numerous journals includ-
Animal Welfare. Sabrina is trained as a human ing, Ethology, Herpetologica, Herpetological
psychologist, has a MSc in animal studies, and Monographs, Journal of Comparative
is currently completing a PhD in human and Psychology, Animal Learning and Behaviour,
non‐human animal welfare. Sabrina’s research Zoo Biology, Society and Animals, Journal of
interests are welfare, behaviour, effecting Applied Animal Welfare Science, and
change, advocacy, and storytelling. She has Evolutionary Psychology. He is a past presi-
presented extensively as an invited and key- dent of the Animal Behaviour Society and
note speaker at animal welfare and advocacy Division 6 (Neuroscience and Comparative
conferences globally and is a reviewer for vari- Psychology) of the American Psychological
ous animal behaviour and welfare journals. Association. He has edited or co‐edited 7
Sabrina is passionate about animals and the books, including The Cognitive Animal:
natural world, and focuses on promoting posi- Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on
tive animal welfare and good human–animal Animal Cognition (MIT Press, 2002) and the
interactions and relationships, to facilitate APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology
excellent animal care and protection and with (APA, 2017) and authored The Genesis of
the aims to effect behaviour change and chal- Animal Play: Testing the Limits (MIT Press,
lenge the status quo. Sabrina uses stories and 2005). Besides his reptile research, his current
storytelling as a means to connect, share, research involves play in animals and
encourage, and empower. responses of primates and other animals to
snakes.
Culum Brown is an associate professor at
Macquarie University and has made a signifi- Jackie Chappell’s research interests focus on
cant contribution to the study of behavioural the ways in which the environment shapes
ecology of fishes over his research career. His intelligence through evolution, the ways in
research niche lies in the study of fish behav- which animals (including humans) under-
iour with his most significant contribution stand their physical environments, and how
being enhancing our understanding of fish this changes during development. For exam-
cognition and behaviour. Culum is a well‐ ple, how do animals integrate information
known champion of fish intelligence and about their physical environments and
welfare. properties of objects discovered during