{"id":760341,"date":"2020-04-25T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760341"},"modified":"2020-04-25T07:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T11:43:55","slug":"becoming-wild-inside-the-cultures-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760341","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Becoming Wild&#8217;: Inside the Cultures of Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>This beautiful phrase from Carl Safina's book Becoming Wild deserves to be remembered: 'The animals just need room to live and to be left in peace to make their own choices'.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BARBARA J. KING:<\/strong> Animals think, feel and learn from each other in complex ways that finally are coming to be recognized. In Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace, ecologist and veteran author Carl Safina writes: &#8220;It&#8217;s as if we are just waking up from a long journey through space and having a look around an interesting new planet.&#8221; Becoming Wild is Safina&#8217;s seventh book for adults, and it extends this new awareness of animal intelligence and emotion to questions of animal culture. &#8220;Culture is information and behavior that flows socially and can be learned, retained, and shared,&#8221; Safina says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joining field researchers as they observe sperm whales in the Caribbean, scarlet macaws in Amazonian Peru, and chimpanzees in Uganda&#8217;s Budongo Forest, Safina explains how we know that many animals make use of that social flow, instead of only instinct or gene encodings. Combining the knowledge of a seasoned scientist with the skills of a good storyteller, Safina invites us to leave our cultural worlds and enter animals&#8217; ones to see just how they work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As in his previous book Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, Safina calls on his readers to reverse the trend of growing harm toward the natural world. 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