
Becoming Wild
How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
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Carl Safina
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Carl Safina
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. 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.
You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch. You too may raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace. And your culture, too, changes and evolves. 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.
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, Carl Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity.
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A must read for an ailing species!
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"Who are you?" That is the question we should be asking creatures with whom we stingily share our planet.
There are a few painful passages when Safina points out the truth about human selfishness. But by sharing research and facts about the way these animals interact with the world, I hope that all but the most selfish with rethink the world in which we live. A note the selfish: Creatures on this world enrich our lives too. And without them, our existence will be bland and unrewarding.
Finally, I would say that this book seems like a translator, from the language and culture of non-human creatures, to humans.
Simply amazing.
Beyond words, literally
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Oh, Boy! Another Carl Safina book!
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Beautiful prose when he is descriptive.
Well researched insight into animal cultures!
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wonderful
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Magnificently inspiring!
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It all sinks in over the story—highly recommend
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Changed my view of the world
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All through the first section on whales I kept pausing it and telling people all about their culture and families - something about the knowledge felt exciting and I wanted to share it. The book as a whole was lovely and engrossing. The author reads the book and is very able with conveying emotion when appropriate. There were some things in this book I already knew and alot I didn't, but it was structured very well and I highly recommend it.
lovely and engrossing
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Maybe Carl should think about condensing this book so the non believers might take a little time to read or listen.
Makes you stop think
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