Clive Wynne’s research interests have focused on dogs and their wild relatives, but over the last 30 years he has studied the behavior of animals ranging from pigeons to dunnarts (a mouse-sized marsupial) and from bats to Galápagos tortoises. He is currently completing a book on the evolution of dogs, a project that has taken him to Africa and other sites of early domestication to elucidate the interplay of genetics and behavior. Professor of psychology at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2013 and director of U.F.’s Canine Cognition & Behavior Lab, Wynne recently joined the Arizona State faculty. He is also director of research at Wolf Park, a wildlife education and research facility in Battle Ground, Ind. Always fascinated by the things animals do, in recent years he has developed an additional interest in how people relate to animals. When not working, he talks to his dog — even though research from his own lab suggests she is quite indifferent to what he says to her.