Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (2015)

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel  (2015)

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

Author: Carl Safina
Published: May 31st, 2015
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