Danilo Mainardi

Danilo Mainardi, ethologist, ecologist and popular science divulger, is professor of Behavioural Ecology at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is honorary president of the LIPU (Italian League for the Protection of Birds), member of the National Academy of Sciences (dei Quaranta) and former president of the International Ethological Society. He collaborates with Corriere della Sera, Il Sole-24 Ore, and the monthly Airone. He is a regular guest of Piero Angela in Superquark. Cairo Editore has published his Nella mente degli animali, now in its fifth edition, and La bella zoologia.