As an undergraduate at Duke University, Emily studied cognition in dogs with Brian Hare. She received her PhD in 2017, after conducting a three-year longitudinal study of social and cognitive development in puppies, based at The Seeing Eye© in New Jersey. Emily is now a post-doc working jointly with Evan MacLean at the University of Arizona Canine Cognition Center (Tucson AZ) and Canine Companions for Independence ((Santa Rosa, CA).

Andy received his PhD for research on the vocal communication of spotted hyenas at Kay Holekamp‘s research site in the Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. He is now a post-doc at Princeton, working with Dan Rubenstein on the social behavior and communication of equids.

Isaac received his PhD in 2016 for research on the vocal communication of free-ranging bonobos at the Lui Kotal research site in the Democratic Republic of Congo, established by Gottfried Hohmann. He has been a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany), and now holds a post-doctoral teaching fellowship at Harvard University. He is continuing field research on African bonobos.

For his PhD (received in 2012), Noah studied patterns of genetic relatedness, kinship, and cooperation in gelada monkeys in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia, working jointly with Jacinta Beehner and Thore Bergman. During these years, Noah was reputed to be the fastest chicken plucker in the Simien Mountains. He then spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University, working with Jenny Tung, and is now an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, continuing his research on genetics, genomics, and social behavior in mammals.