Dr. Carl Safina — a prize-winning author, scientist and MacArthur Fellow—discusses his new book, “Beyond Words: What Animals Think And Feel,” which in the broadest of strokes, involves three big sections, in which Safina is observing the behavior of elephants at Amboseli National Park, wolves in Yellowstone National Park and killer whales in the Pacific Northwest, alongside top experts who’ve worked in each of those areas for decades. Read more…
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Joyce Poole, Elephant Expert Extraordinaire
Joyce Poole–co-founder of ElephantVoices and considered one of the world’s foremost elephant experts–discusses some of her pioneering work in the realm of elephant communication, including identifying and decoding their vocalizations; addresses some of the techniques for moving unobtrusively close to elephants over more than 30 years of studying them, often in East Africa, perhaps most notably in Amboseli National Park (which, as someone enormously passionate about elephants, I was fortunate enough to visit several years ago). Read more…