Audubon Everglades Presents

“Becoming Wild” and “Beyond Words”

December 2021 Monthly Meeting and Lecture Program: An Evening with Author Carl Safina Speaking on the Minds and Culture of Animals

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 7:00PM
Zoom-Hosted Presentation (Advance registration required)
6:45-7:00PM Social time with fellow members and presenters

Humans think, experience emotions, and develop cultures. Turns out, so do many other species. Drawing on his two most recent books, “Becoming Wild” and “Beyond Words”, Carl Safina will discuss cognition, emotion, and culture in non-human beings. He will show and talk about, what makes us human and what makes many other species who they are. He will also talk about what is at stake in this living world, for us and for all our co-voyaging species.

About Carl Safina

Carl Safina’s lyrical non-fiction writing explores how humans are changing the living world, and what the changes mean for non-human beings and for us all. His work fuses scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. His writing has won a MacArthur “genius” prize; Pew, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundation Fellowships; book awards from Lannan, Orion, and the National Academies; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals.

He grew up raising pigeons, training hawks and owls, and spending as many days and nights in the woods and on the water as he could. Safina is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean, which can be viewed free at PBS.org.

His writing appears in The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, Audubon, Yale e360, and National Geographic, and on the Web at Huffington Post, CNN.com, Medium, and elsewhere. Safina is the author of ten books including the classic Song for the Blue Ocean, as well as New York Times Bestseller Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel. His most recent book is Becoming Wild; How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace. He lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife Patricia and their dogs and feathered friends.

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