Beyond Words

By - Safina, Carl, 1955-

Floor - Floor 2

Published - Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2015

ISBN 10 - 0805098887

ISBN 13 - 9780805098884

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Animal behavior

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 591.56 SAF

Physical Description - xiii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Notes - Include Index

Book Information

In a world where we usually measure animals by human standards, prize-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us inside their lives and minds, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion, showing why the word "it" is often inappropriate as we discover who they really are. Weaving decades of observations of actual families of free-living creatures with new discoveries about brain functioning, Carl Safina's narrative breaches many commonly held boundaries between humans and other animals. InBeyond Words, readers travel the wilds of Africa to visit some of the last great elephant gatherings, then follow wolves of Yellowstone National Park sort out the aftermath of their personal tragedy, then plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in waters of the Pacific Northwest. We spend quality time, too, with dogs and falcons and ravens; and consider how the human mind originated. In his wise and passionate new book, Safina delivers a graceful examination of how animals truly think and feel, which calls to question what really does—and what should—make us human.

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