In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different.
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?.
By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity.
Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into Cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day Animal societies.
The light of knowledge needs adjusting as situations change, so a capacity for learning, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust, to change much faster than genes alone could adapt.
And your culture, too, changes and evolves.
You too may Raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace.
You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch.
You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance.
It shows how if you\'re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community.
What are they afraid of? This book looks into three Cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth\'s remaining wild places.
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. -- The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures--what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them.
In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different
