Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Becoming Wild
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace | Carl Safina
6 posts | 4 read | 7 to read
New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultureswhat they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. 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 Earths remaining wild places. It shows how if youre 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, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
Soubhiville
post image

May has been a strong reading month! Several informative non fiction selections, some interesting memoirs, and a range of fiction genres.

I‘m looking forward to #audioathon all through June. I may read a bit less since I‘ll be spending a week with family.

blurb
Soubhiville
post image

Anyone with pets can see that non-human animals have cultures of their own. The author spent time with sperm whales, scarlet macaws, and chimpanzees to learn about some of their culture. He intersperses stories from other creatures as well as his own family dogs.

I really love this kind of natural world non-fiction. Great book!

@TheAromaofBooks this was my #bookspin 🙂.

Addison_Reads I loved this one too. Carl Safina does such a great job writing about the natural world. 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
55 likes4 stack adds2 comments
blurb
Soubhiville
post image

I got in a brief visit to Book People earlier this week, and the discount tables got me! I came home with this terrific Nonfiction book haul 😁📚

InkintheMargins I loved the transcendental vibes in Walking to Listen! 🌳 🎒 4y
54 likes1 comment
blurb
Soubhiville
post image

I‘m looking forward to this panel at Texas Book Festival, starting in about an hour. I love nonfiction about animals and the environment, so this panel is one of my most anticipated this year.

Most of the panels will be available to watch for 30 days after the fest, if you‘ve missed something! www.Texasbookfestival.org

#TexasBookFestival #TXBookFestival

Mitch Yeah - see you there honey - there has to be at least one event we go to “together“ ! x 4y
Soubhiville @Mitch yay! I‘ve been to lots but haven‘t been posting much about them. I just watched the Memorial Drive one- it was so good I immediately put the book on hold with the library. It‘s got a long waitlist though. ❤️ 4y
Mitch I didn't realise until you said that they were accessible after the event - which makes it more possible with the time different etc.. looking forward to Yaa Gyasi tomorrow 4y
See All 6 Comments
Soubhiville @mitch me too! And Brit Bennett! Lol, and TJ Klune and so many more! 4y
Mitch @Soubhiville 👏 👏 👏 👏 4y
Kimzey Thanks for the heads up on the Texas Book Festival! 4y
56 likes6 comments
review
Addison_Reads
post image
Pickpick

I took a break from all things spooky to read some nonfiction.

I'm a fan of Carl Safina's writing. This is the third book I've read by him and I've loved them all.

I loved how this book is broken down into different sections exploring various aspects of animal culture, and he not only compares animals with other animals, but he also explores their connection with human culture. It reminded me of how much we can learn from the natural world.

review
RamsFan1963
post image
Bailedbailed

Only an hour into this, but I have to bail. I thought this was going to be a science book, but the author waxes on poetically about animals that I find annoying and unscientific.

SamAnne Yeah, he likes to do that. 4y
35 likes1 comment