Show Notes
Ep. 23 — Badass, Beautiful Wolves and the Dog in Us All
“Animals Are Moral Creatures, Argues Scientist,” by Tia Ghose, Live Science, November 2012.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? By De Waal, Frans. WW Norton, 2016.
Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition, by Miklosi, Adam, Dr. Oxford University Press 2016.
A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff. Princeton University Press, October 2021.
The Moral Lives of Animals, by Dale Peterson, Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male, by Rick McIntyre. Greystone Books, October 2021.
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Ep. 22 — Does Magic the Therapy Horse Really Care About People?
Bolden, Louis, “Therapy horses provide healing after Pulse massacre,” ClickOrlando, October 2018.
Conrad, Sarah Evers, “Equine Emotional Intelligence,” Horse Illustrated, August 2020.
Davis, Lauren Cassani, “Horses Can Read Human Facial Expressions,” The Atlantic, February 2016.
Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses
www.facebook.com/TherapyHorses
www.gentlecarouseltherapyhorses.com
www.instagram.com/gentlecarousel
Lineberry, Cate, “Believe in Magic — A miniature therapy horse — the winner of our Most Heroic Pet Contest — inspires the world,” by Cate Lineberry, AARP The Magazine, March 23, 2011.
Marx, Patricia, “Pets Allowed: why are so many animals now in places they shouldn’t be?” The New Yorker, October 2014.
McMillan, Fiona, “New Research Reveals Horses Can Read and Remember Your Facial Expressions,” Forbes, April 2018.
“Miniature Horse Makes Dying Woman’s Wish Come True,” Today.com, USA Today video, November 2015.
PetLife Radio Interview https://www.petliferadio.com/workingdogsep154.html
Proops, Leann, et. al. Animals Remember Previous Facial Expressions that Specific Humans Have Exhibited,” Current Biology, April 2018.
Smith, Victoria, et. al. “Functionally relevant responses to human facial expressions of emotion in the domestic horse (Equus caballus),” Royal Society Publishing, February 2016.
Steinmetz, Katy, “Magic the Miniature Mare–Top 10 Heroic Animals” Time, March, 2011
Young, Calvin and Jennifer Horton, “Canine and Equine Therapy for Mental Health: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness,” National Library of Medicine, August 2019.
Ep. 21 — The Astonishing Truth About Rudolph’s Nose and More
Cairngorm Reindeer Herd on Facebook
Cairngorm Reindeer Herd: Home The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd is Britain’s only free-ranging herd of reindeer found in the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland. These tame and friendly animals are a joy to all who come and see them. Reindeer are not just for Christmas!
“Caribou (Reindeer),” National Geographic.
“Follow Thousands of Reindeer on an Epic Journey,” Nature on PBS, YouTube, November 2020.
Haigh, Jerry, Reindeer Reflections: Lessons from an Ancient Culture, Rocky Mountain Books, October 2021.
–Website https://www.jerryhaigh.com/
–Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jerry.haigh
–Twitter @glasgowwildvet
–LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-haigh-9b63735/
“Highly competitive reindeer males control female behavior during the rut,” by G. Body et. al, PLoS One, National Library of Medicine, April 2014.
Intelligence of reindeer. “On Reindeer and Men,” by Tim Ingold, Man, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 4, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, December 1974, pp. 523-538.
“Living With Reindeer,” Nat Geo WILD, Youtube, December 2016. Winter is coming and indigenous Sami reindeer herders make preparations for their domesticated reindeer.
“Norway, the Twilight of Reindeer,” Show Me The World, YouTube, November 218. Sami herders struggle with the threat of global warming.
Red noses on reindeer.
– “Reindeer Noses Really Do Glow Red!” Nature on PBS, YouTube, December 2016.
– “The Scientific Reason Why Reindeer Have Red Noses,” by Joseph Stromburg, Smithsonian Magazine, December 2012.
– “Why Rudolph’s Nose is Red,” Can Ince et. al., The British Medical Journal, December 2012.
“Reindeer” by Travis Kemp, podcast, Calming Facts, December 2020. A hilarious (and relaxing) list of cool reindeer facts.
Reindeer Cyclone Videos
–from drone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOr8I0rh0hE (In an article about this video we find out a veterinarian caused it)
–about reindeer cyclones on PBS https://youtu.be/xv8UtXWk8UI
—Reindeer cyclone on BBC YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8UtXWk8UI
–cyclones as predator evasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkKy3brFzk
“Reindeer Were Domesticated Much Earlier Than Previously Thought,” by Geoff McMaster, PhysOrg, June 2020.
“Top 5 Reindeer Moments,” on BBC Earth — 20 amazing minutes just chilling with reindeer and their peaceful personalities. All about riding in a sleigh and witnessing the northern lights. Chockfull of beauty and fascinating facts. Super charming!
Ep. 20 — Pigeons: The Greatest Love You Lost and Never Knew
“Boomerang the racing pigeon returns to the owner who gave her away TEN years ago,” by David Wilkes, Daily Mail, June 2008.
Bouget and Blanchon in “Pigeon is 80-year-old French pensioner’s best friend,” Gulf News, June 14, 2021.
Carlen, Dr. Elizabeth, pigeon expert, her website.
Cher Ami, the WWI hero, Wikipedia.
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesy by Kathleen Rooney, Penguin/Random House, August 2020.
“Homing Pigeons–Teach Your Birds to Come Home!” Standing Stone Kennels, YouTube, October 2019.
Mosco, Rosemary, The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: , Workman Publishing Company, October 2021.
Palomacy Pigeon and Dove Adoptions
Pigeons
–and crop milk, Wikipedia.
–and math, “Turns Out, Pigeons Are Just As Good As Monkeys When It Comes to Math,” NPR, December 2011.
— intelligence, “The Surprising Neuroscience of Pigeon Intelligence,” by Dr. Sebastian Ocklenburg, Psychology Today, July 2019.
–in the movies, Pigeon Movie Database.
–and pants, Pigeon pants on Etsy.
–and reading ability, “Orthographic processing in pigeons” by Damian Scarf et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2016.
— as term of endearment on Disney’s 1955 Lady and the Tramp, YouTube clip.
–and tail whistles, “Pigeon Whistles in Beijing,” 11 minutes of eerie sound, Mark Zuiderveld, YouTube, December 2017.
–and tricks, Pigeon Trix YouTube Channel.
–and wing clap, “Slow Motion Pigeon Clap,” BBC Earth Unplugged, YouTube, 2013
–and whistle wing alarm, “Pigeons sound a warning call–with their feathers,” Science Magazine, YouTube, November 2017.
Pollan, Michael, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. Random House, 2001.
Renton, Alice, Biography of a Pigeon, Ivy Books 1988.
“Trick/Task Fun Training a Pigeon,” starring Freckles, Pigeon Trix, YouTube April 8, 2021.
Vaugh, Don, “Nikola Tesla’s Weird Obsession with Pigeons,” Britannica.
Ep. 19: Why People Love These Flying Monkeys
De Waal, Frans. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? WW Norton, 2016.
“An Evening with Jonathan Meiburg and Jeff VanderMeer” Books & Books, YouTube, April 2021.
“Fallowfields Falconry – Meet Boo the Intelligent Caracara” YouTube, December 2011.
Genius Dog Challenge about word-learning in dogs, “Squall the Genius Dog,” This Animal Life, podcast, August 2021.
“Geoff & Tina,” Caught by The River, March 2021.
Geoff Pearson and Tina video, “Clever Bird,” YouTube, August 2008.
Gibson, Graham, The Bedside Book of Birds, Nan A. Talese, 2005.
“The Great Ape Escape” the story of the orangutan Fu Manchu who fashioned a key and hid it in his lip, This Animal Life, podcast, August 2021.
Harrington, Katie, & Jonathan Meiburg “Use of appeasement display and recruitment by an adult Striated Caracara (Phalcoboenus australis) to overcome territorial defense,” Wilson Journal of Ornithology, August 2021.
“Larue the Crested Caracara and fearful behavior,” with Hillary Hankey, Avian Behavior Institute, June 2003.
Sean McCann, “Red-Throated Caracara’s are Way Cool Because . . .” YouTube, February 2014. Keep up with caracara expert Sean McCann on Twitter.
“Meet Kevin the Caracara” Falconry and Me, YouTube, April 2020.
Jonathan Meiburg interviewed on “The Bedside Book of Birds with Margaret Atwood, David Sibley, Jonathan Meiburg, and Jessica Leber” Doubleday Publishing, YouTube, March 2021.
Jonathan Meiburg’s most remarkable book is A Most Remarkable Creature:
The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
Jonathan Meiburg interviewed on “Science and Nature: From the Page to Wilder Places,” Los Angeles Times Events, April 23, 2021.
Jonathan Meiburg interviewed for Paris Review Interview, by John Jeremiah Sullivan, April 2021.
Morrison, Joan, lecture on “Crested Caracaras,” Orange Audubon Society, YouTube, December 2020.
Pepperberg, Irene M., Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, Collins, 2008.
Pilley, John W. Dr., Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2013.
“Project Aims to Save Rare Bird,” Tampa Bay Times, 2005.
The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which sent Jonathan to the Falkland Islands in 1997.
Vanderbilt University, “Study Gives New Meaning to the Term ‘Bird Brain.’” Neuroscience News, June 2016.
Wallace, Amy, “Meet the Birds: Zorro the Striated Caracara,” Falconry and Me, YouTube, April2020.
Ep. 18: The Scrappy Super Genius Who Survives Despite You
Sam Wilber’s Resources
Population/General Info:
NatGeo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/coyotes-expansion-north-america-wildlife-nation
HSUS https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/why-killing-coyotes-doesnt-work
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum https://www.desertmuseum.org/kids/oz/long-fact-sheets/coyote.php
LiveScience https://www.livescience.com/27976-coyotes.html
Farm and Dairy:
https://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/coyotes-are-here-to-stay-and-thats-ok/615795.html
Feral/Outdoor Cats:
HSUS – problematic stance on protecting cats from coyotes
https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/coyotes-pets-and-community-cats
Ecological impacts of cats
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10073
Wildlife Society Fact Sheet on outdoor cats
https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Feral-Cats.pdf
Science News: Feral cats avoid coyotes and are therefore less ecologically harmful
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131113143600.htm
Tohono O’odham:
Creation story:
Coyote tales
https://www.indigenouspeople.net/coyotal.htm
Map of ancestral homelands to reference indigenous peoples of your area
Coyotes and Badgers:
My favorite video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bICTWNRrGE
New video just shared recently:
https://news.yahoo.com/badger-coyote-seen-strolling-together-151138501.html
Article on the mutualism:
https://mymodernmet.com/badger-coyote-mutualism/
Rabies:
https://atlantacoyoteproject.org/2016/07/coyotes-and-rabies/
Lisa’s Resources
Attacks by Coyotes on Humans, Wikipedia. Only two attacks are known to have been fatal ever, whereas domestic dogs kill 30 – 50 people per year in the US alone.
“Caught on Camera: Cat Fights Off 3 Coyotes,” CBS Los Angeles, January 11, 2020.
Colangelo, Lisa L., “Coyotes deserve a warmer welcome from New Yorkers, says wildlife biologist,” New York Daily News, April 2015.
“Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs,” Scientific American
Coyote Attacks Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_attack
Flores, Dan, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, Basic Books, June 2016.
Gehrt, Stanley D. “Urban Coyote Research Project,”
Gehrt, Stanley, D. et al. “Is the Coyote a Misanthropic Synanthrope?” Cities and the Environment, Vol. 4 Issue 1, July 2011.
“How to Haze a Coyote,” YouTube
Humane Society, “Coyotes and people: what to know if you encounter a coyote,” HumaneSociety.org 2021.
iNaturalist interactive website https://www.inaturalist.org/
Interactive Map of Coyote Sightings in Florida
Lovejoy’s Islands, Wikipedia redirects to Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project.
Martin, Douglas, “Central Park Coyote Will Live in Queens,” New York Times, April 1999.
“NYC Coyote Existential: Where do they come from and where are they going?” Out Walking the Dog blog.
“Otis (Full Song),” by Moose & Elephant, YouTube, April 2021.
Perkins, Chris, “Coyote population booms in Florida,” Channel 4 News, June 20, 2021.
Pollan, Michael, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns,” The New York Times Magazine, May 1989.
Ryden, Hope, God’s Dog: A Celebration of the North American Coyote, iUniverse, May 2005.
Thompson, Linda Briggs, “Living with Coyotes,” Broward County Parks, YouTube, April 22, 2021. Excellent history of coyote population trends.
Wegner, Helena, “Aggressive coyote attacks woman walking dog–nips at others, Arizona police say,” Charlotte Observer, October 19, 2021.
Ep. 17: A Savvy Animal Agent Recalls America‘s Most Famous Dog
Algonquin, the Story of a Great Dog, by Dion Henderson, Western Publishing Company, 1953.
Benji–The Full Movie, 1974, EncourageTV, YouTube, October 2020.
The Big Book of Tricks for the Best Dog Ever, by Chris Perondi and Larry Kay, Workman Publishing, 2019.
Beverly Hillbillies, Wikipedia.
Captain (Arthur) Haggerty, Master Dog Trainer, Wikipedia.
Clicker Training for Cats, Karen Pryor, Sunshine Books, 2001.
Cooper, Diana C., “Higgins–from Shelter Dog to Beloved Benji,” Famous Dogs in History, July 2017.
Dawn Wolfe Social Media
Pawsitively Famous, Dawn Wolfe’s animal talent agency’s website
Pawsitively Famous Facebook Page
Do More With Your Dog Dog Trick Titles and Stunt Dog Titles
Do More With Your Dog Animal Actors Academie Internationale
First Born, starring Elisabeth Shue and Dawn Wolfe’s dog, Nikki, 2007.
“Frank Inn: Animal Trainer,” full 4-hour interview, interviewed by Michael Rosen, Television Academy Foundation, The Interviews, August 8, 2001
“Frank Inn on the dog who worked on Petticoat Junction and starred in Benji,” Foundation Interviews,
“Higgins the Dog ~ Star of Benji, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Lassie, Mooch,”
The Humpy Awards, Miss Hope wins the humping competition, YouTube, June 2012.
Hope in the “Westminster Commercial” for Treasure Island Resort & Casinos, YouTube.
London, Jack, Call of the Wild/White Fang, Ann Arbor Media, 2006.
“Maverick the Surfer Cat,” Cat People, YouTube, Netflix Futures, July 2021.
Mel & Godric are on Instagram as @paradigm.canines
Pawsitively Famous YouTube Channel
Petticoat Junction, Wikipedia.
Petticoat Junction, “Betty-Jo’s Dog,” Season 2, Episode 1, YouTube March 2017.
Prose, Eileen, “Remember Benji? Meet the movie dog and his trainer. See his tricks!,” YouTube, June 2017.
Sasha, My Friend, by Barbara Corcoran, Atheneum, 1973.
Stanley Steemer, “Toby’s New Trick,” The Loomis Agency, YouTube.
TV Guide, “The Benji Issue,” December 2-8 1978, Pinterest.
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls, Yearling, 2000.
Ep. 16: Behind the Scenes in the Genius Dog Challenge
Csányi, Vilmos, If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mind, translated by Richard E. Quandt, North Point Press, December 2005.
Dror, Shany, “Do Dogs Understand Us?” The Family Pupz Podcast, by Tanya & Charles Lim, Apple Podcasts, September 2021.
Dror, Shany, & Adam Miklosi, “Max & Squall,” Genius Dog Challenge, YouTube, November 18, 2020.
Dror, Shany, & Claudia Fugazza, “Finals: Nalani & Squall,” Genius Dog Challenge, YouTube, December 16, 2020.
Family Dog Project, founded by Vilmos Csányi, Ádám Miklósi, and József Topál to study the behavioral and cognitive aspects of the dog-human relationship.
Fugazza, Claudia, Dr., Do as I Do: Using Social Learning to Train Dogs, Dogwise Publishing, June 30 2014.
Fugazza, Claudia, “Word learning dogs (Canis Familiaris) provide an animal model for studying exceptional performance,” Nature, July 7, 2021.
Genius Dog Challenge, research conducted at Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Ethology and The Family Dog Project. If your dog knows the names of more than 10 objects or toys and you are interested in cooperating, you may apply to participate with your dog here.
Genius Dog Challenge social media:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/geniusdogchallenge
- Instagram: http://instagram.com/geniusdogchallenge
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeniusDogChallenge\
- And if you think your dog is a genius, reach out to Shany Dror directly at shanydror@geniusdogchallenge.com!
Inskeep, Stephen, “Researchers study very smart dogs for their grasp of human language,” NPR Morning Edition, October 6, 2021.
KLIMB Tables and other Blue-9 products are available for discount here on our website.
Miklosi, Adam, Dr. Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition, Oxford University Press 2016.
Morell, Virginia, “Some dogs are geniuses–just like humans,” National Geographic, July 14, 2021.
Morrison, Ryan, “Is your dog gifted?” Daily Mail, October 6, 2021.
Shany Dror, Ádám Miklósi, Andrea Sommese, Andrea Temesi and Claudia Fugazza, “Acquisition and long-term memory of object names in a sample of Gifted Word-Learner dogs,” Royal Society Publishing, October 6, 2021.
Pilley JW, Reid AK. 2011Border collie comprehends object names as verbal referents. Behav. Processes 86, 184-195. (doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2010.11.007) Crossref, PubMed, ISI, Google Scholar
Pilley, John W. Dr., Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2013.
Robins, Mary, “How Much Language Do Dogs Really Understand?” American Kennel Club News, March 2021.
Ep. 15: Root For Yourself In The Ninja Warrior Squirrel Challenge
Aliperti, Jaclyn R., et. al., “Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel,” Science Direct, Vol. 180, October 2021.
Darwin, Charles, essay, “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” Darwin Online, 1872.
Ebert, Roger, review of “Day of the Jackal,” Roger Eber. Com, July 1973. “One hell of an exciting movie.”
Kerlin, Kat, “Personality Matters, Even for Squirrels,” UC Davis, September 2021.
Luckey, Bud, animator, “Sesame Street: That’s About the Size,” YouTube.
Luscomb, Richard, “Squirrels have human-like personality traits,” The Guardian, September 2021.
“Meerkat Manor,” Wikipedia page.
Micu, Alexandra, “Understanding squirrel Personalities can help us better protect endangered species,” ZME Science, September 22, 2021.
Morgan, Lloyd, “Morgan’s Canon,” Oxford Reference.
O’Leary, Denyse, “Why Do Researchers Wonder Whether Animals Have Personalities?” Mind Matters, February 2021.
Rober, Mark, “Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0: Ninja Warrior Course,” YouTube, May 24, 2020.
Shivik, John A., “Do animals have personalities? Why scientists are starting to admit they do,” NBC News, December 2017.
Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Universal Pictures and Paramount, 1977. Be patient with the early backstories or just skip them till Roy gets to the jungle.
Young, Miriam, Miss Suzy #1, Purple House Press, 1964, 2004.
Ep. 14: Sure-Fire Ways to Be Brainless, From An Inspiring Slime
Barnett, Heather, “What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime,” Jul 17, 2014. A TED talk about slime mold.
The Blob: A Genius Without a Brain (TV Movie). Directed by Jacques Mitsch, 2019.
Can Slime Mould Solve Mazes?, BBC Earth Lab, Dec 5, 2018. Reproduction of the Tokyo Metro study.
The Creeping Garden Documentary.Directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, 2014. Click here for the trailer.
Dussutour, Audrey, “Le Blob,” Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le blob sans jamais oser le demander, Des Equateurs, April 27th 2017.
Dussutour, Audrey, “Decision-making in Slime Molds,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2020, June 2020.
Eaglemann, David, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, Pantheon Books, 2020.
Hollowman, Luke M.S., “Anesthesia Works on Plants Too, and We Don’t Know Why,” Medium, July 2020.
“Mould Time-lapse – The Great British Year: Episode 4,” Preview – BBC One. Oct 18, 2013.
Nagel, Thomas. “What is it like to be a bat?” The Philosophical Review. 83 (4), 1974. [Link to Wikipedia page].
Pollan, Michael, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. Random House, 2001.
Shaviro, Steven, Discognition Repeater, 2016.
“Slime Molds: No Brains No Feet No Problem” PBS News Hour, April 2012.
The Slime Mould Collective “The Slime Mould Collective is a portal for interesting, progressive and ground breaking research and creative practice working with the simple yet intelligent organisms. If you are involved with or interested in slime moulds as a scientist, artist, designer, teacher, philosopher… (etc), please join and share what you do.” Can put you in touch with sources of slime mold.
Tchaikovsky, Adrian, Children of Time, PanMacmillan, 2015. The mind-blowing spider novel.
Tchaikovsky, Adrian, Children of Ruin, Macmillan Digital Audio, 2019. The super-cool octopus novel that includes an all-consuming slime-like creature.
Ep. 13: Get Zen At Your Audubon Raptor Center
How to Find a Wildlife Rehabilitator
“How to Love a Buzzard,” by Lisa Lanser Rose, Sugar Mule: Women Writing Nature, August 2012.
John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove
MacDonald, Helen, H is for Hawk, Jonathan Cape, 2014.
National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
“The Second Coming,” poem by William Butler Yeats
Shavers Creek Environmental Center
White, T.H., The Goshawk, NYRB Classics, 2007.
Co-host Ann LaBar with Lew Boynton, raptor handler at John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove
Ep. 12: Do Dogs Fool Everyone In Murder Trials?
Balko, Radley, “The Supreme Court’s ‘Alternative Facts’ About Drug-Sniffing Dogs,” Opinion, Washington Post, February 2019.
Bianca Jones article, “Father Convicted of Murdering his 2-Year-Old Daughter 6 Years Ago Says She’s Still Alive,” by Kevin Deitz, Click-On Detroit, January 2018.
The Bone Room, where you can buy Search and Rescue (SAR) training packets online.
The Bone Room on Science Friday, by Lauren Young, October 2018.
“Brief Supplementing Motions to Exclude Unreliable Dog Sniff Evidence,” People of the State of Colorado V. Mark Allen Redwine.
“Cadaver Dog Experts Take Stand in Redwine Trial,” Fox31 News, by Nicole Fierro, July 6, 2021.
Cadaver Dog handler of Molly recounts “strongest alert ever” by Dave Minsky, Lompoc Record, August 11, 2021.
Cadaver dog as “junk science,” Patty Neiberg, “Colorado father convicted of killing his 13-year-old son,” AP News, July 16, 2021.
“Casey Anthony Trial Raises Questions About Cadaver Dogs,” Ed. Colin Miller, EvidenceProf Blog, University of South Carolina School of Law, Law Professor Blogs Network, June 2011.
Chris Lambert’s podcast about Kristin Smart, Your Own Backyard
Derr, Mark, “With Dog Detectives, Mistakes Can Happen,” NYTimes, December 2002.
“The Disappearance of Kristin Smart: What Happened and What’s Next,” by Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, September 8, 2021.
“Dog Handler Sentenced for Planting Fake Evidence,” Chicago Tribune, September 2004.
“Effect of Handler Knowledge of the Detection Task on Canine Search Behavior and Performance,” by DeChant et. al., Frontiers in Veterinary Science, May 2020.
“Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes,” by Lisa Lit, et. al, National Center for Biotechnology Information, January 2011.
“How to Train a Cadaver Dog,” by Malia Wollen, NYTimes, June 2015.
Redwine case & cadaver dogs, Allison Sylte, 9News, July 6, 2021.
Warren, Cat, What the Dog Knows, Touchstone, October 2013.
Ep. 11: Grateful Crows Give People Shrewd Thank-You Gifts
Andrews, Candace Gaukel, “Crows are as Intelligent as a Seven-Year-Old Child,” Good Nature Travel, October 2018.
Bittel, Jason, “Think Crow Funerals Are Strange? Wait Until You See the Wake.” Audubon, July 2018.
Bloom, Cameron, and Bradley Trevor Greive, Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family, ABC Books, March 2016. “The Coffee-Table Book”
Bloom, Cameron, and Bradley Trevor Greive, Penguin Bloom: how a scruffy magpie saved a family,” The Guardian, October 2016. A cool photostory.
Heinrich, Bernd, Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Ecco Press, 2000.
Marzluff, M., John, & Tony Angell, Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans, Simon and Schuster 2012.
McNiece, Mia, “How a Magpie Helped Save Australian Mom Sam Bloom After a Tragic Acciden–And Inspired a Netflix Movie,” People, January 2021.
Messenger, Stephanie, “Crows Keep Bringing Presents to Woman Who is Kind to Them,” The Dodo, August 2019.
Mock, Jillian, “Did Crows Actually Make These Gifts for the Human Who Feeds Them?” Audubon, May 2019.
Saint John, Kate, “Gifts from Crows” Outside My Window, February 2019.Sewell, Katy “The girl who gets gifts from birds,” BBC News, February 2015.
Ep. 10: Lies, Spies, and The Great Ape Escape
Calhoun, Ben, “Fu Manchu,” Radiolab, January 2010.
Gaines, James, “This epic zoo escape story shows how fantastically smart orangutans can be,” Upworthy, August 2016.
Stockton, Paysha, “Animal tales: an orangutan escape artist, other stories,” Seattle Times, September 2000.
Ep. 09: The Dog Who Knew Too Much
Cernich, Karen, “Jim’s Story Will Make You Wonder, How Did He Do It?” EMissourian.com Jan. 14, 2017.
Clever Hans on Wikipedia
Dailey, Nancy B., Jim aka The Wonder Dog, Paperback Press, 2018.
Figley, Mary Rhodes, The True Story of Jim the Wonder Dog, Roadrunner Press, 2017.
Hearne, Vicki, Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name. Skyhorse, 1986.
Kelly, Kate, “Jim the Wonder Dog: Was He Psychic?” American Dogs, America Comes Alive!
Gymnasium Mathematics–it turns out ”gymnasium” is a European term for a secondary (high) school.
Mitchell, Clarence Dewey, Jim the Wonder Dog, Jim the Wonder Dog Inc., 1942. This seems to be the museum’s official biography, and it was written in collaboration with Jim’s owner, Sam VanArsdale.
The Jim the Wonder Dog Museum website
Theory of Mind on Wikipedia
Ep. 08: How Do You Know What A Bird Dreams About?
“Animals have complex dreams, MIT researcher proves.” MIT News Office. January 2001.
“Do Animals Dream?” Earth/Sky. February 2019.
Eaglemann, David and Don Vaugh. “Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains.” December 2020.
Fox, Douglas “Do Fruit Flies Dream of Electric Bananas?” New Scientist. February 2004.
Giaimo, Cara. “Why We Love to Fly in Our Dreams.” Slate. November 2016.
Goldman, Jason G. “What do animals dream about?” BBC. April 2014.
Horton, Lydiard Heneage. Dissertation on the Dream Problem. Vol. 1.
Louie, Kenway , Matthew A Wilson. “Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep.” Neuron. Vol 29. Issue 1. January 2001.
“Octopus Dreaming.” Octopus: Making Contact. Nature. Season 38 Episode 1
Rattenborg, Niels C. et al. “Local Aspects of Avian Non-REM and REM Sleep.” Frontiers in Neuroscience. June 2019.
Setka, Bret. “Bird Brains are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought.” September 2020.
Smith, Belinda. “Why dreams like flying, falling, being chased are so common, and how your brain creates them.” ABC Science. January 2019.
Vanderbilt University, “Study Gives New Meaning to the Term ‘Bird Brain.’” Neuroscience News, June 2016.
“What Are Dreams?” PBS Nova.
Ep. 07: How to Fall in Love With an Octopus
Erlich, Pippa. “Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Pippa Ehrlich – “My Octopus Teacher” by Cody Corrall. Women and Hollywood. June 3, 2020.
Erlich, Pippa, featured in “Why ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Directors Brought in an ‘Octopus Psychologist’ for Their Doc.” by Steve Pond. The Wrap. April 12, 2021.
Foster, Craig. Interviewed in “Filmmaker Finds an Unlikely Underwater Friend in ‘My Octopus Teacher.’ Fresh Air, NPR, October 15, 2020.
Foster, Craig, filmmaker. My Octopus Teacher, Netflix Documentary, 2020.
Foster, Craig. Sea Change Project. Website.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2016.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Interviewed in “What Can an Octopus Teach Us About Consciousness?” When We Talk About Animals, podcast. Episode 2.
“Legging it: Evasive octopus who has been allowed to look for love.” By Kathy Marksoz. Independent. February 14, 2009
Mather, Jennifer, featured in “Octopuses at Work and Play: Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition.” Women You Should Know. By Dale Debakcsy. Nov, 14, 2018.
Mather, Jennifer. “What’s in an octopus’s mind?” Animal Sentience 26(1), 2019.
Montgomery, Sy. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. Atria Books, 2015.
Nagel, Thomas. “What is it like to be a bat?” The Philosophical Review. 83 (4), 1974. [Link to Wikipedia page]
Octolab TV: Octolab.Tv a series of videos of octopus experiments, most of them an octopus with mirrors, an octopus reacting to a wig, and they take suggestions online.
Scheel, David, featured in “Octopus: Making Contact,” PBS Nature, Season 38, Episode 1. Oct. 2019.
Von Uexküll, Jakob, Wikipedia page with Umwelt.
Episode 06: Do Cats Rescue People They Love?
Adams, Sam, “Best of friends: Cat and dog meet at same time every day to enjoy a stroll,” Mirror, August 2015.
Demirjian, Karoun, “Russia’s heroic cat Masha: She’s credited with saving an abandoned infant from winter’s deep freeze.” Washington Post, January 2015.
Dictionary Corner: Iris Oxtabee was right! Anthropomorphism: The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Dunn, Rob, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live. Basic Books, Illustrated edition, October 2019.
Lang, Fabienne, “Cat Dies Defending Family from One of Australia’s Most Venomous Snakes.” Interesting Engineering, February 2021.
Morell, Virginia, Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures. Crown Publishers; 1st edition, February 26, 2013.
Strickland, Ashley, “Yes, cats really do bond with people, study says, even if they don’t always show it.” CNN September, 2019.
Episode 05: Does Your Cat Want You Dead?
Bradbury, Ray. “The Veldt,” The Illustrated Man, Doubleday, 1951.
Cat image (left) by Tambako the Jaguar on Flikr Creative Commons, 2010.
De Waal, Frans. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? WW Norton, 2016.
DiChario, Nick. “I am Mr. Baxter,” This Animal Life, 2021.
Dohen, Kathleen. “Cat’s ‘Sixth Sense’ Predicting Death.” Fetch by WebMD, July 25, 2007.
Dosa, David, interviewed by Carol Kaufmann. “An Angel With Whiskers,” AARP Bulletin, July 10, 2010.
Dosa, David, interviewed by Richard Schlesinger. “Eye to Eye: Oscar The Cat,” CBS News. July 27, 2007.
David Dosa, Making Rounds with Oscar (The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat) Hatchette Books, 2009.
Dosa, David, featured in “Making Rounds With Oscar,” The Rhode Show, WPRI, YouTube, February 8, 2010.
Eveleth, Rose. “Does This Cat Know When You’re Going to Die?” Smithsonian Magazine. September 20, 2012.
Hearne, Vicki. “What It Is About Cats.” Adam’s Task Calling Animals By Name. Skyhorse, 1986.
“Oscar the cat, Dr. Dosa, his new book, and the hazards of meeting the press,” The Providence Journal.
Nagel, Thomas. “What is it like to be a bat?” [Wikipedia] The Philosophical Review. 83 (4), 1974.
“Oscar, the Nursing Home Cat Can Feel When People Are About to Die” by Spooky, Oddity Central. November 19, 2014.
Szawarski, Piotr. “Classic cases revisited: Oscar the cat and predicting death,” National Center for Biotechnology Information. November 17, 2016.
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall. The Hidden Life of Dogs. Orion Publishing, 2003.
Episode 04: Ferrets, COVID, and Chimps in the Time of Polio
Combs, Sydney, “These Wild Animals Also Practice Social Distancing to Avoid Getting Sick,” National Geographic, March 24, 2020
COVID-19 Facts for Pet Owners, American Veterinary Medical Association.
COVID-19 and Pets, Mayo Clinic.
Daly, Natasha, “First Dog to Test Positive for COVID in the US Dies,” National Geographic JULY 29, 2020
de Ferrer, Marthe, “These Animals Already Self-Isolate to Stay Safe and Healthy. What Can We Learn From Them?” Euronews, last updated: 13/05/2020
Goodall, Jane, In the Shadow of Man. Mariner Books, 2000.
Greene, Meg, Jane Goodall: A Biography. Prometheus Books, 2008.
Hawley, Dana M. & Julia C. Buck, “Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease” in Scientific American, August 1, 2020.
Kwong, Emily,“1st U.S. Dog With COVID-19 Has Died, And There’s A Lot We Still Don’t Know,” Short Wave, NPR August 12, 2020.
Paumgarten, Nick, “What Will Become of Pandemic Pets?” The New Yorker, June 21, 2021
“Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Domestic Cats” New England Journal of Medicine, August 6, 2020.
Episode 03: Is There a Gene for Dog People?
Coppinger, Raymond and Laura, Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, Scribner, 2001
Coren, Stanley, The Intelligence of Dogs, Atria Books, 2006.
Coren, Stanley. Why We Love the Dogs We Do. Free Press, 2000.
The Language and Music of the Wolves, American Museum of Natural, History, vinyl LP, 1971. Narrated by Robert Redford. Available on Spotify.
Larson, Janet Elisabeth, The Versatile Border Collie. Alpine Blue Ribbon Books, 1998, 2010.
McCaig, Donald, Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club, Outrun Press 2007.
Miklosi, Adam, Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition, Oxford University Press 2016.
Pollan, Michael, The Botany of Desire. Random House, 2001.
Robertson, R.B., Of Sheep and Men. Knopf, 1957.
Thurston, Mary Elizabeth, The Lost History of the Canine Race: Our15,00-Year Love Affair with Dogs, Andrews McMeel 1996.
Wilson, Edward O., Biophilia. Harvard University Press, 1986.
Episode 02: Love, Loyalty, and Friendship Among Sharks
Abernethy, Jim, featured in “Guy and Wild Shark Have Been Best Friends for Decades,” The Dodo Wild Hearts. August 4, 2020.
Abernethy, Jim, featured with Eric Cheng in “Misunderstood Predators: Part 2,” Tales by Light, Netflix April 2017..
Abernethy, Jim. Scuba Adventures, dive-with-the-sharks website.
Abernethy, Jim featured in “Shark Encounter in 180: Worth More Alive,” National Geographic on YouTube. Surprising and sobering interdependence between human and shark.
Abernethy, Jim, “Tiger Shark Love,” YouTube video of Jim and Tarantino, November 2014.
Benchley, Peter, Jaws, Random House, 1974.
Frazer, Bryant, “The Deep (1977) Blu-Ray,” Film Freak Central, June 2012. Article about the making of the film and Percy the eel puppets.
Ghose, Tia, “Why Shark Embryos Gobble Each Other Up in Utero,” Live Science, April 30, 2013.
Lazarus, Keo Felker, The Shark in Charlie’s Window, Scholastic Book Services, 1972. Children’s book.
Martinez, Eli, “Brave explorer shows how to tame a giant man-eating tiger shark” by Tom Davidson. Mirror 2/8/2018.
Moray eel puppet scene from The Deep on YouTube.
Shiffman, David, “How Smart Are Sharks?” Sport Diver, July 30, 2020.
Taylor, Valerie, featured in “Woman Shares a Magical Bond With A Spotted Moray Eel,” by Sarah Barness, Huffington Post, July 9, 2014.
Taylor, Valerie with Honey the spotted moray eel, “Valerie Taylor Befriends a Spotted Moray Eel.” Central Florida Aquarium Society.
Weber, Chuck, “Are sharks the ‘dogs’ of the ocean?” CBS, November 4, 2016.