Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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Baroness Hollins is Chair of the Board of Trustees and editorial content is still overseen by her, together with a wider team of expert authors, artists and readers who find pictures easier than words. It was a great catch-up for me as I haven’t read much on animal behavior studies since syntheses by Jane Goodall on chimps, John Lilly on dolphins, and Barry Lopez on wolves some decades ago (recent exceptions being De Waal on primate empathy and Sapolsky on baboon societies).

In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. If you watch wolves not just in all their beauty and adaptability but in all their brutality, it’s hard to escape that conclusion. Beyond Words was awarded a National Learning Disability Award for its work on stories for Covid-19 and won the Patient Information Award from the British Medical Association for our book Having a Baby. There are four other scenarios in this book: Being Examined, Injection, Blood Test, and Prescription, while the text at the back of the book includes a Guide for Supporters/Informants, and a Guide for GPs and the Primary Care Team.

Devo dire che leggendo ci si vergogna di essere uomini, o più precisamente uomini occidentali viventi in un sistema capitalistico, perché le varie tribù native, che avevano con l'ambiente un rapporto armonioso, rispettoso ed equilibrato, sono state trattate dal sistema capitalistico esattamente come gli animali. Questioning our assumptions, puncturing our illusions and illuminating the way we live now, Beyond Words is a small book that speaks volumes. Just as with human families or tribes, elephant, wolf, and killer whale counterparts can be flexible in composition between strictly biological members or outsiders adopted into them. More and more what gets observed by their long-term monitors is angle both on pathology and resilient adaptation to changes in their environment, food sources, and unnecessary deaths of key family leaders. When I chose to read this book I thought I was going to get something like The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think which I gave four stars, but rather than concentrating solely on dogs the focus would cover many animals.

Così armato di tutto l'entusiasmo e la voglia di capire, l'autore incontra persone che dedicano tutta la loro vita all'osservazione di specifici animali e cercando di carpirne l'essenza. Rounded on the outer edge, flattened on the inner, a great mine-sweeping, water-hosing, mud-flinging, dust-deviling, air-testing, food-gathering, friend-greeting, infant-rescuing, baby-reassuring caterpillar of a nose. It’s also to see how many of our dogs’ tendencies and talents were fully formed in the wild, and remain intact in our homes. Weaving together up-to-date scientific discoveries into consciousness with intimate observation of free-living animals, from herds of elephant in Kenya to a wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park and schools of killer whales in the Pacific, Carl Safina takes the reader into their lives and minds. In example after example, we are shown how acts of individuals from these species bear resemblance in multiple ways to human behaviors associated with the full range of emotions: love, empathy, joy, envy, jealousy, pride, shame, pity, grief, and likely awe and magnanimity.Please ensure that the necessary support and safeguards are in place before sharing the images with someone who may find them upsetting. The author is a famed conservationist, a marine biologist and has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University.