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Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel

If you believe elephants are just some creatures that can't speak or feel, then please read this book.

Treking with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, researcher Carl Safina collects astonishing photographs with decades of field research in Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel, which gives readers an intimate and extraordinary look at what makes these animals different from us, but more important, what makes us all similar.

What do we have in common?

Do elephants and whales feel?

YES! YES! YES!

“We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us—a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races. ...In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel