Comments on: Book review – Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

By: Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:18:11 +0000

[…] might just see a collection of unlikely stories here but I am reminded of what Carl Safina wrote in Beyond Words: how his mental bin labelled “unlikely stories” is getting cluttered. You can only […]

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By: Book review – Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 16 May 2024 15:13:17 +0000

[…] Carl Safina needs little in the way of introduction, having written the lauded Beyond Words and Becoming Wild, and a score of earlier books. For me, he ranks right up there with modern […]

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By: Book review – When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:04:34 +0000

[…] out to already condemn many of the things we do to animals. If you are at all familiar with work by Carl Safina, Frans de Waal, or Marc Bekoff, this book will be right up your alley. It even throws in, without […]

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By: Book review – From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:23:21 +0000

[…] You can probably tell that I am not fond of human exceptionalism, and I will readily quote both Carl Safina and Frans de Waal on why I think we have underestimated animals. However. I cannot deny that Conway […]

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By: Book review – Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:34:46 +0000

[…] that we routinely underestimate them, as I hope my reviews of books such as Safina’s Beyond Words and Mancuso’s The Revolutionary Genius of Plants have shown. But comparing them to us […]

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By: Book review – Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:24:49 +0000

[…] a lack of self-awareness. Carl Safina was merciless: if an animal does not recognise its reflection “all it proves is that they don’t understand reflection” (p. 276). Dogs are a point in case that Wimpenny explores further here, as they rely more on smell than on […]

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By: Book review – The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:58:33 +0000

[…] both how individuals have unique personalities and characters (something Frans de Waal and Carl Safina have convinced me of), but also describing remarkable behaviours. Two stood out in particular in […]

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By: Book review – The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:29:38 +0000

[…] over into anthropomorphising wolves. Biologists such as Frans de Waal and Carl Safina, whose book Beyond Words first put me on the track of McIntyre’s work, have hardened my conviction that animals have […]

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By: Book review – How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:31:18 +0000

[…] other animals have mental states? The extent to which they do is debated but the Safinas and De Waals of this world will have you believe it is more common than we […]

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By: Science Of Stupids (@ScienceOstupids)

Science Of Stupids (@ScienceOstupids) — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:25:59 +0000

I have been on your blog for more than four hours…the way you have written is phenomenal.
Of course Leon is a keen Biologist but he is no less than an amazing writer.
This seems awkward, but I have to admit that you made me fell in love with you 😉

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