Marino, Lori

Lori Marino is a behavioral neuroscientist in the Department of Psychology and affiliated to the Center for Ethics at Emory University (Georgia). She specializes in cetacean and primate intelligence and brain evolution, including brain–behavior relationships, the evolution of intelligence, and self-awareness in other species. She is also interested in human–non-human relationships, non-invasive models of science, animal welfare, advocacy, and ethics. In 2001 she and her colleague Diana Reiss published the first evidence for mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins.