Martina Lazzaroni

Martina Lazzaroni serves as a Fixed-term researcher in the Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences at the University of Parma, where she teaches Comparative Cognition and Social Behavior of Canids for the Master's program in Ecology and Ethology for Nature Conservation.

Her research specializes in animal cognition and ethology, with emphasis on canid behavior across species including domestic dogs, wolves, and red foxes. Key investigation areas encompass human-canine coevolution, urbanization impacts on wildlife behavior, social cognition mechanisms, and domestication effects on interspecies communication.

Publications from 2020-2024 demonstrate consistent focus on behavioral responses to anthropogenic environments, hormonal underpinnings of human-animal bonds, and comparative analyses of wild versus domesticated canid cognition, advancing conservation biology and animal welfare science.