Carl Safina

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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (2015)

May 31st, 2015

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Based on the lives of elephants, wolves, and killer whales, this is a magnetic and humbling investigation into the ways in which humans have dramatically misunderstood — at our intense peril — how our fellow riders on Earth make their well considered way in life.

Dr. Safina is a professor and ecologist at Columbia University in New York City. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University and was the inaugural holder of the endowed chair for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University. He co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit organization, The Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean.

Rated 4.41 on Goodreads.

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In August 2023, Dr. Safina published a young adult's book along these same lines: Learning to Be Wild (a Young Reader's Adaptation): How Animals Achieve Peace, Create Beauty, and Raise Families

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel  (2015)
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations...

~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House