Marc Bekoff is Professor of Biology at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, and
recipient of their Exemplar Award for outstanding contributions
to the field of animal behavior. He is co-founder with Jane
Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:
Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Studies. Marc is on the
Board of Directors of The Fauna Sanctuary, The Cougar Fund, the
Skyline Sanctuary and Education Center, and the Prairie
Preservation Alliance and on the advisory board for Animal
Defenders and for the Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group and the
conservation organization SINAPU. He has been part of the
international program, Science and the Spiritual Quest II and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
program on Science, Ethics, and Religion. Marc is also an
honorary member of Animalisti Italiani and Fundacion Altarriba,
and on the Scientific Review Board of the Great Ape Trust. In
2006 he was named a Fellow of the Dancing Star Foundation and an
honorary board member of Rational Animal. In 2005 Marc was
presented with The Bank One Faculty Community Service Award for
the work he has done with children, senior citizens, and
prisoners. He has written more than 200 articles and is the
author or editor of numerous books, including the
Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare,
The Cognitive Animal (co-edited with C. Allen and
G.M.Burghardt); The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for
the Animals We Love (co-written with Jane Goodall), and the
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Other recent books
include The Smile of a Dolphin, Minding
Animals, and Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues:
Reflections on Redecorating Nature.
selected books
How Animals Talk and Other Pleasant Studies of Birds and Beasts
with William J. Long and Rupert Sheldrake (Bear & Company, 2005)
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Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating NatureTemple University Press, 2005
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Minding AnimalsOxford University Press, USA, 2003
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The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We LoveHarperSanFrancisco, 2003
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The Cognitive AnimalThe MIT Press, 2002
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The Smile of a DolphinDiscovery Books, 2000
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organizational affiliations
Ethical Treatment of Animals: Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Studies
http://www.ethologicalethics.org
other related websites
http://literati.net/Bekoff