Becoming wild - Carl Safina

CarlSafina is an award-winning science writer whoseprevious books include Song for the Blue Ocean and Beyond Words. He has written for the Guardian, New York Times, TIME and National Geographic, among others. Heis the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University, and founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife Patricia and their dogs and feathered friends.

'A smorgasbord of compelling details . . . Becoming Wild could easily become a television series.'

'Carl Safina combines his passion for the natural world with absorbing, sometimes breathtaking prose, transporting us into the intimate, nuanced worlds of some of the planet's most charismatic beings.'

'Eloquent. . . This revelatory work sheds as much light on what it means to be human as it does on the nature of other species.'

'Dr. Safina is a terrific writer, majestic and puckish in equal measure.'

'[Safina] is a font of research, his wonder contagious.'

'Safina puts forward several eye-opening and previously-overlooked implications of animal culture… a pleasure to read… another jewel in the crown of Safina's work that packs fascinating field studies, interesting theoretical ideas, soul-searching questions, and probing reflections on human and animal nature into a book that is as profound as it is moving.'

'Safina, the ecologist and author of many books about animal behavior, here delves into the world of chimpanzees, sperm whales and macaws to make a convincing argument that animals learn from one another and pass down culture in a way that will feel very familiar to us.'