Clive D. L. Wynne (born 1961) is a British-Australian ethologist specializing in the behavior of dogs and their wild relatives. He has worked in the United States, Australia, and Europe, and is currently based at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. He was born and raised on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, studied at University College London, and got his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University. He has studied the behavior of many species - ranging from pigeons to dunnarts, but starting around 2006 melded his childhood love of dogs with his professional training and now studies and teaches about the behavior of dogs and their wild relatives.[1]
Wynne's earlier research focused on the cognitive abilities of pigeons (e.g., Wynne et al. 1992;[3] Wynne 1997[4]), as well as their perception of arbitrary short time intervals (e.g., Wynne et al. 1996[5]). In Australia, Wynne studied the learning abilities of two species of marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) and the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) (e.g., Bonney and Wynne 2002a; 2002b[6][7]) and he is known for his opposition to anthropomorphism in the understanding of animal cognition (e.g., Wynne 2004[8]).
The specific focus of Wynne's ongoing research is the behaviour of dogs and their wild relatives. In this domain his group studies the ability of pet dogs to react adaptively to the behaviours of the people they live with; the deployment of applied behaviour analytic techniques to the treatment of problem behaviours in dogs; the behaviours of shelter dogs that influence their chances of adoption into human homes; improved methods for training sniffer dogs; the development of test banks for studying cognitive aging in pet dogs; and humans as social enrichment for captive canids.[9]
In 2017 Wynne and his collaborators organized the inaugural Canine Science Conference in Tempe, AZ - the first of its kind in North America.[9]
Books
Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals (Palgrave)[10]
Do Animals Think? (Princeton University Press)[11]
Animal Cognition: Evolution, Behavior, and Cognition (Palgrave Macmillan))[12]
Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)[13]
References
^Wynne, Clive (2018). "How I went to the dogs". Psychologist. 31: 50–51.
^Wynne, Clive D. L. (2018). "Clive Wynne". Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior and Cognition: 1–3.
^Wynne, Clive D. L.; Fersen, L. von; Staddon, J. E. R. (1992). "Pigeons' inferences are transitive and are the outcome of elementary conditioning principles: A response". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 18 (3): 313–318. doi:10.1037/0097-7403.18.3.313.
^Bonney, K. R.; Wynne, Clive D. L. (2002). "Quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) demonstrate tactile discrimination learning and serial-reversal learning". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 116 (1): 51–54. doi:10.1037/0735-7036.116.1.51. PMID11930935.
^Bonney, K. R.; Wynne, Clive D. L. (2002). "Visual discrimination learning and strategy behavior in the fat-tailed dunnarts ( Sminthopsis crassicaudata )". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 116 (1): 55–62. doi:10.1037/0735-7036.116.1.55. PMID11930936.
^Wynne, Clive D. L. (2001). Animal cognition : the mental lives of animals. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN0333923952. OCLC48083994.
^Wynne, Clive D. L. (2004). Do animals think?. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN0691113114. OCLC52765941.
^Wynne, Clive D. L. (30 August 2013). Animal cognition : evolution, behavior and cognition. Udell, Monique A. R. (Second ed.). Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave. ISBN9780230294226. OCLC861554734.