Learning to Be Wild: How Animals Achieve Peace, Create Beauty, and Raise Families

Learning to Be Wild explores social learning and culture among animals, presenting them as capacities not limited to people. Ecologist Safina joins field scientists studying chimpanzees, sperm whales, and macaws, providing vivid details from their research. It considers animal cultures through the ways animals raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace. This young readers edition of Becoming Wild contains black-and-white photographs and follows the scientists’ work with these three animal groups.