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Beyond Words

By Carl Safina

What Animals Think and Feel. Harry Holt & Co, 2015.

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A brief summary of Beyond Words

An ecologist’s observations about animal behaviors across several species, and the insights we can gain about their personalities, consciousness, intelligence, and self-awareness.

Key insights in Beyond Words

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What do you get from this book? An up-close encounter with animals, seeking to understand how they think and feel
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If we are going to study animals, we need to first acknowledge that they are individuals distinct from humans
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Scientists have struggled to accept that animals think, but observations demonstrate that animals have complex inner minds
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Many mammals experience similar emotions as humans, such as empathy, joy, and grief – we share similar brain structures
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Elephants learn from their matriarch’s wisdom and respond to her leadership
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Animals engage in their own forms of communication, with meanings that can only be comprehended within their context
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Wolves organize in packs based on leadership and a strict social hierarchy to hunt, travel, and defend themselves against threats
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Personality traits like confidence, mercy, and ferocity in alpha wolves impact the survival of the pack
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Wolves display innate intelligence when teaching other wolves and planning hunts for large game
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Intelligent creatures like killer whales and primates have intense social needs and form bonds to survive
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We study domesticated and captured animals without considering how different free-living animals behave in the wild
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All creatures learn what to think of humans through positive and negative experiences
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Who should read Beyond Words

Biologists and ecologists • pet owners • anyone who loves animals • wildlife warriors

About the author of Beyond Words

Carl Safina is an ecologist, a conservationist, and the founding president of the Safina Center nonprofit. His scientific writings about the life and preservation of animals have earned him a MacArthur genius grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, and several esteemed naturalist and humanitarian awards. Safina has also written several books, including Song for the Blue Ocean and Becoming Wild.

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