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Learning to Be Wild: How Animals Achieve Peace, Create Beauty, and Raise Families
Carl Safina
Illustrator: Carl Safina
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck
ISBN: 978-1-25083-825-4
Keywords: Culture, sperm whales, chimpanzees. birds, nature
Social learning and culture are not confined to humans. Ecologist Safina joins field scientists and provides vivid details about the chimpanzees, sperm whales, and macaws they study. Black-and-white photographs. Young readers edition of Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace.