The Pawsitive Post Holiday Special with Jo Wimpenny PhD, Marc Bekoff PhD, and Erica Beckwith CTC

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In this special episode, Zazie and Kristi are joined by popular guests from previous episodes to chat about all things animal behaviour, including dogs, cats, ants, penguins, and crows.

Photos of all five guests including Marc Bekoff, Jo Wimpenny, and (in the middle) Erica Beckwith, with Kristi Benson and Zazie Todd on the left. The background is lilac and the text reads Holiday special with Jo Wimpenny PhD, Marc Bekoff PhD, and Erica Beckwith CTC. At the bottom is an orange stripe, the name of the podcast The Pawsitive Post in Conversation, and the Companion Animal Psychology logo


By Zazie Todd, PhD

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The Pawsitive Post Holiday Special

Zazie and Kristi are joined by special guests Jo Wimpenny PhD, Marc Bekoff PhD, and Erica Beckwith CTC to chat about all things animal behaviour, including teacher ants, clever crows, provoked penguins, and of course dogs and cats.

We talk about:

  • with Jo Wimpenny, PhD, author of Aesop's Animals, we talk about The Ant and the Grasshopper and how we know whether or not animals can plan ahead--plus we get exciting news about her next book
  • Zazie and Kristi chat about their highlights of the year
  • with Marc Bekoff, PhD, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals (and many other books) we talk about ethology, his research with penguins, and whether animals have rituals
  • Zazie and Kristi chat about Holiday rituals
  • with Erica Beckwith CTC of A Matter of Manners Dog Training, we talk about how to get cute holiday photos of your pets
  • and finally we share which books we've been reading

Previous episodes with these guests:

Also mentioned in this episode:


The covers of the books chosen in this episode: A Woman Among Wolves, The Passengers on the Hankyu Line, Four Days a Week, and Dare I Say It

The books we chose are:


Learn more about our guests:

Jo Wimpenny is a zoologist and writer, with a research background in animal behaviour and the history of science. She studied Zoology at the University of Bristol, and went on to research problem-solving in crows for her DPhil at Oxford University. After postdoctoral research on the history of ornithology at Sheffield, she co-authored the book Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin with Tim Birkhead and Bob Montgomerie, which won the 2015 PROSE award for History of Science, Medicine and Technology. She’s the author of Aesop’s Animals, and we heard she’s got exciting news too.

Dr. Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, He has published 31 books (or 41, depending on how you count multi-volume encyclopedias) and has won many awards for his research on animal behavior, animal emotions (cognitive ethology), compassionate conservation, and animal protection, has worked closely with Jane Goodall as co-chair of the ethics committee of the Jane Goodall Institute, and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He also works closely with inmates at the Boulder County Jail. In June 2022, Marc was recognized as a Hero by the Academy of Dog Trainers. His recent books include Dogs Demystified: An A to Z Guide to All Things Canine, the second edition of The Emotional Lives of Animals, and Jane Goodall at 90: Celebrating an Astonishing Lifetime of Science, Advocacy, Humanitarianism, Hope, and Peace. He also publishes regularly for Psychology Today.

Erica Beckwith is the owner/operator of A Matter of Manners Dog Training in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Erica is an amazing positive reinforcement trainer who first got into dogs as a volunteer at Busan Abandoned Pet Sanctuary in South Korea. After moving back to America, Erica studied at the prestigious Academy for Dog Trainers where she got her CTC. Erica is also a CBCC-KA and a Fear Free certified professional. Erica loves cats too, and she graduated with a certificate in Advanced Feline behaviour for Cat Professionals with Distinction from International Cat Care. Erica loves teaching tricks and we both love the videos she shares of her cute dogs doing tricks. 



A transcript will follow when I get time. I didn't want to wait to bring this special episode to you. Closed captions can be found on Youtube. 

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