Selene Siqueira da Cunha Nogueira has a degree in Biology Sciences, a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of São Paulo, and a post-doctorate in Applied Zoology from the University of Hawaii (UH-2006). Currently, she is a full professor at the Department of Biological Science, State University of Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil. She is a member of the Peccary specialist group of the IUCN, former vice-president of the Brazilian Ethology Society, former coordinator of the PhD Zoology program at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, and the President of the Animal Welfare Committee (IACUC) at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz. She is a research consultant for Brazilian agencies such as CNPq, CAPES, EMBRAPA and FAPESB. Her fields of interest are animal welfare, animal communication, social behavior and applied ethology. She works with neotropical animals, mainly mammals.