How herding dogs calculate trajectories, maintain balance points, and read spatial dynamics during outruns. A behavioral scientist examines the cognitive architecture behind pastoral movement.
A comparative behavioral analysis of the Kelpie and Border Collie—different genetic solutions to the same problem, with profound implications for training, breeding, and stock management.
How behavioral genetics, temperament assessment, and working history predict herding trial performance—and why so many selection decisions still get it wrong.
A comparative analysis of heading, heeling, and tending styles across herding breeds, examining how centuries of regional selection produced fundamentally different approaches to livestock management.
New neuroimaging and electrophysiology research reveals the brain circuits that produce the Border Collie's intense herding stare, and why this behavioral phenotype cannot be trained into existence.
Exploring the neurological and genetic basis for the intense, fixed stare that defines Border Collie herding style, drawing on two decades of field observation and laboratory research.
