Becoming Wild

I listened to Carl Safina read Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families; Create Beauty and Achieve Peace to me. He writes about culture and how humans are not the only species to have culture. He focuses on sperm whales (in the Caribbean Sea), scarlet macaws (in Peru) and chimpanzees (in Uganda). He travels and speaks to researchers about their findings. With the whales he writes about their language. Each pod of whales has their own dialect. Some pods are friendly to each others and other pods do not interact at all. The elders in the group teach the younger ones how to communicate, how to hunt, and how to stay safe. Mammals, birds, fishes and even some insects learn things culturally. Humans are not the only creatures who belong to families and who pride themselves on taking care of others. This book was an eye opener for me.