Safina, Carl

"Follows a pack of wolves at Yellowstone National Park and domestic dogs including the author's own pets, and describes their capacity for perception, thought, and emotion"--OCLC.

Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about the brain, and complete with astonishing photos taken by the author, Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel gives readers an intimate and extraordinary look at what makes these animals different from us, but more importantly, what makes them similar. Namely, their feelings of joy, grief, anger, and love. These similarities between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy allow the reader to reexamine how we interact with animals as well as how we see our own place in the world.

Examines what we can know of of animal emotions and thoughts through studying their brains and behaviors. Explores stories of wolves dealing with the death of one of their pack, elephants being creative in avoiding poachers, and dolphins calling to one another while following a boat of humans.

Examines what we can know of of animal emotions and thoughts through studying their brains and behaviors. Explores stories of wolves dealing with the death of one of their pack, elephants being creative in avoiding poachers, and dolphins calling to one another while following a boat of humans.

Sounds a warning about the decline of the world's marine resources due to commercial fishing and other causes and the imminent extinction of some species.

The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future. The decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from human interventions, and teach us lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans. The only surviving species of its suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. As naturalist Safina makes clear, the fate of the leatherback is in our hands. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua New Guinea.--From publisher description.

Examines the environmental and social consequences of the 2010 BP oil spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it.

A conservationist explores various global regions to investigate examples of environmental degradation and renewal while identifying a link between environmental dangers and human rights issues.

The author describes his observations of the natural world while traveling from the high Arctic to Antarctica and across the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, and reflects on his experiences throughout his year of travels.