Dr. Marshall-Pescini

Very proud to work with these people! Follow the link to view the trailer of a documentary on mitigation of wolf-human conflict in Italy, showcasing the amazing team I am lucky enough to work with ! Award well deserved!

BiGThink talks about our paper in TICS...

a summary of our thoughts for BIG Think... beware of easy 'domestication' stories...

Live Science article...

do wolves wag their tails? Although much still needs to be done on the function and evolution of tail-wagging, here is a short article on our thoughts on the subject

Morocco free-ranging dogs make it in Der Standard...

a nice article about our project with free-ranging dogs in Morocco... for Der Standard. Only in German.

The Financial Times want to know about wolves and dogs...

was not expecting the Financial Times would be interested in our work :-) But in fact, I had the chance to contribute to Jonathan Guthrie’s Nature Therapy columns talking about dogs and wolves...

Podcast interview talking about strays...

lovely chance to chat with Alexandra Horowitz, about our free-ranging dog project in Morocco... do strays have a good life? I think i got a little philosophical and sentimental about it all! On spotify or other ways to listen!

Psychology Today...

rather exciting to have Marc Bekoff praise out book... and a nice summary if you can't be bothered to read the whole thing ;-)

Talking about humans and dogs and how we got here...

talking to IDEAS contributor Neil Sandell from CBC Radio Canada about humans and dogs and how we got close together with a cool hosts of guests. Really worth listening to here!

Wild wolves in the Italian Apennines...

wonderful footage of our study pack interacting... then hours of coding to analyse their behaviour! thanks Martina Lazzaroni and Martina Russignan for their patience and persistence!!

Our Morocco free-ranging dog project

as nicely presented by Dr Dale and featured in a brief video for an Italian newspaper (Il Secolo XIX) (in English).

An in depth interview with The Atlantic

the title is a tad dramatic, but I loved talking to Ed Young! this was an i depth interview and a fantastic article which really sums it alL up! We need more studies on free-ranging dogs... and wild wolves!

The BBC talks about our cooperative wolves, and not so cooperative dogs

a short but sweet article by the BBC about our study available here

Scientific American on dogs and wolves and cooperation

nice little article summarizing our study.

Gizmodo talk about our work

... loved this article.... yes indeed! the next big challenge is understanding WHY wolves are so much better than dogs... although we have some ideas :-)

The New York Times

a fun video-report on our studies on wolf and dog cooperation at the Wolf Science Centre!

Both wolves and dogs cooperate with humans....

but their style is quite different! Video of the experimental procedure... the paper Scientific reports: DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-40468-y.

Wolves more prosocial than dogs...

Listen to an interview with Dr. Dale talking about our results comparing wolves' and dogs' prosocial behaviours towards pack mates... I love the animations!

Persistence task in our Morocco dogs

an example of one of our Morocco dogs interacting with the persistence apparatus... video by Martina Lazzaroni. Read the paper here PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214806.

Wolves cooperate with each other a lot better than dogs....

at least in the famous string pulling task! Read the paper in PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1709027114

Social eavesdropping in pet dogs...

the study procedure and paper Social eavesdropping.pdf

How do we fool our dogs?

the study procedure of our study: "Do dogs make counterproductive choices because they are sensitive to human ostensive cues?" PLoS ONE 7(4): e35437.

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