Beyond words - Carl Safina

Alongside Frans de Waal's The Age of Empathy,
Carl Safina is leading the way in investigating animals' intelligence
and empathy, understanding their outer and inner lives. His challenging
conclusions raise the question: if we can understand how non-human
animals feel does that redefine humanity's relationship with them and
the natural world?Carl Safina's intimate view of animal behaviour challenges the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words,
he presents numerous facts and decades of field observations about an
array of fascinating animals: from the Amboseli National Park in Kenya
where he witnesses struggling elephant families survive poaching and
drought, to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves in the aftermath
of one pack's personal tragedy, before he dives into the peaceful
society of killer whales living in the waters of the Pacific Northwest."Over my lifetime, living with, studying, and working with many other
animals in their world and ours has only broadened and deepened - and
reaffirmed - my impression of our shared life."Beyond Words is a powerful and illuminating
insight into the unique personalities of animals through stories of
their emotional responses: joy, jealousy, anger, and love. The
similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and
empathy suggests that humans and non-humans all feel the same emotions,
form bonds with our families and social groups, and learn to cope with
our environment in similar ways. Wise, passionate, and revelatory Beyond Words examines humanity's place in nature and our kinship with the natural world.