Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Blurb

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 Safinas narrative breaches many commonly held boundaries between humans and other animals In Beyond 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 doesand what shouldmake us human