Toni Frohoff, Ph.D.

Toni is the founder and director of Terramar Research, recognized for advancing interspecies science and advocacy for wildlife and nature. She is an ethologist and behavioral biologist with a longtime specialization in elephants and cetaceans both in captivity and in the wild. She has distinctive expertise in studying and advocating for the agency and wellbeing of individuals, cultures, and populations of other species.

As an author or co-author, Toni has contributed to dozens of journals, books, and encyclopedias and has authored two books (with Yale University Press and Sierra Club Books/UC Press).Most recently, she wrote a chapter on elephants in Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues. She also contributed the chapter "Interspecies Ecocultural Identities in Human-Elephant Cohabitation" in The Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge Press). 

Over decades, Toni's work has contributed to the revision and/or implementation of policies protecting the rights and wellbeing of wildlife in approximately twenty countries. She has served on a multitude of government task forces, committees, advisory groups and conventions locally, nationally, and internationally.