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Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
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Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day animal societies. By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?
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"Safina brings his considerable expertise to his research, and it's clear he doesn't leave his heart at home ..."
"Becoming Wild made me forget myself, more than once."
"So it's the stories of Safina's days with these animals that move us ..."
"Among its many virtues, Becoming Wild eases such discomfort."
"Enthralling accounts of three animals that lead complex social lives and deserve to continue living."
"[an] eloquent treatise ..."
"However, he also sometimes rephrases similar points and poses questions for thought, musing until readers lose an understanding of the initial thesis ..."
"involving, even addictive ..."
"Combining the knowledge of a seasoned scientist with the skills of a good storyteller, Safina invites us to leave our cultural worlds and enter animals' ones to see just how they work ..."
"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different from our usual anthropocentric perspective."
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