Dog Days: A Scientific Look at Man's Best Friend

Tuesday, 09/21 6 PM
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The Diana Center

They are underfoot, nearly 52 million of them in the U.S.—living in our homes, eating our food, sleeping in (or by) our beds: domestic dogs. But how well do we know this species with which so many of us share our lives? Join Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Natalie Angier '78 and three leading researchers in dog behavior and cognition for a discussion of what dogs know, understand, and perceive. Best-selling author Ray Coppinger, a founding member of the Hampshire College faculty and emeritus professor of biology, has spent decades working with and studying herding dogs. Clive Wynne, a psychologist at the University of Florida, compares the behavior of dogs to socialized wolves. Barnard's Alexandra Horowitz, author of The New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, is empirically testing anthropomorphisms that humans make of dogs, while also using scientific results to understand the perspective of the dog.

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