Marc's main areas of research include animal behavior, cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), behavioral ecology, and compassionate conservation (see also)
and he has also published extensively on hunan-animal interactions and
animal protection. He has published more than 500 essays (popular,
scientific, and book chapters) and 22 books including Species of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology (with Colin Allen, MIT Press, 1997); Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology (edited with Colin Allen and George Lauder, MIT Press, 1998); Animal play: Evolutionary, Comparative, and Ecological Perspectives (edited with John Byers, Cambridge University Press, 1998), Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998), and a book on the lighter side, Nature's Life Lessons: Everyday Truths from Nature (with Jim Carrier, Fulcrum, 1996). His children's book, Strolling With Our Kin was published in Fall 2000 (AAVS/Lantern Books) as was The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions (Random House/Discovery Books). The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and theoretical perspectives on animal cognition (edited by Marc, Colin Allen, and Gordon Burghardt) appeared in 2002 (MIT Press), as did Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart (Oxford University Press) and Jane Goodall and Marc's The Ten Trusts: What we must do to care for the animals we love (HarperCollins). Marc has edited a three volume Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004), and a collection of his essays titledAnimal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating Nature was published by Temple University Press (2006).
A summary of Marc's research on animal emotions titled The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy and Why They Matterwas published in 2007 by New World Library and his and Jessica Pierce's book on the evolution of moral behavior titled Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009. Marc has also edited a four-volume Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships: A Global Exploration of our Connections with Animals for Greenwood Publishing Group (2007) and he and Cara Blessley Lowe have edited a book of readings on cougars titled Listening to Cougar (University Press of Colorado, 2007). Marc's book Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect was also published in 2007 (Shambhala Publications) and Temple University Press published Marc's children's book, Animals at Play: Rules of the Game in 2008. The two-volume revision and expansion of Marc's 1998 Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare was published in 2010 (ABC-CLIO) and The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint was also published in 2010 (New World Library). Ignoring Nature No More: The Case For Compassionate Conservation will soon be published by the University of Chicago Press, a collection of Marc's essays from Psychology Today called Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation will be published in Fall 2013 by New World Library, and Rewilding Our Hearts will be published in Fall 2014 by New World Library. Jill Robinson (founder of Animals Asia) and Marc's children's book titled Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears has also been published by Sleeping Bear Press.
Marc's work has been featured on 48 Hours, in Time Magazine, Life
Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, New
Scientist, BBC Wildlife, Orion, Scientific American, Ranger Rick,
National Geographic Kids, on NPR, BBC, Fox, NaturGEO, in a National
Geographic Society television special ("Play: The Nature of the Game"),
Discovery TV's "Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry," Animal Planet's
"The Power of Play," National Geographic Society's "Hunting in America,"
and more recently in "What Animals Think" and PBS Nature's "Why We Love
Cats and Dogs" and "Animal Odd Couples." Marc has also appeared on
CNN, Good Morning America, and 20/20.
In
1986 Marc became the first American to win his age-class at the Tour du
Haut Var bicycle race (also called the Master's/age-graded Tour de
France). Among Marc's hobbies are cycling, skiing, hiking, and reading
spy novels.
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