Bradley Smith is a cognitive ethologist with a specific interest in canine cognition. He has over 5 years experience working with dingoes, and is one of the only researchers in the world specialising in dingo cognition. Bradley’s PhD research involved conducting hands-on non-invasive experiments with a captive population of dingoes, and comparing their behaviour and cognition to both wild canids and domestic dogs. Findings from his research have been published in various peer-reviewed scientific journals (such as Animal Behaviour), and his photographs of wild dingoes have appeared on the cover of various magazines. Bradley currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Central Queensland University (Appleton Institute, Adelaide, Australia), where he continues to study dingoes and the human-animal relationship. He is also the supervisor of research and ethics at the Dingo Discovery and Research Centre, the largest dingo sanctuary in Australia.
Lecture: Dingoes, the ‘missing link’ between wolves and domestic dogs?
(Under the Ethology and Canine Behavior Lecture Series)