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Carl Safina

The World’s Most Mis-named, Mis-Heard Whale

A reader of my new book the cultures of free-living animals, Becoming Wild, wrote to me to offer a slight realignment to something I’d…

3 min readJun 2, 2020

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The World’s Most Mis-named, Mis-Heard Whale

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Carl Safina

Look between

“Down along the shoreline where my dog has paused, a redwing blackbird calls, then listens, then calls again.

1 min readMay 29, 2020

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Look between

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T

“You can’t know what your dog is thinking — except when you can. You and your dog both know if you’re about to go for a walk or get into…

2 min readMay 7, 2020

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Carl Safina

What is cultural?

“What is cultural becomes obvious if not everyone does it. Everyone eats; eating isn’t culture. Not everyone eats with chopsticks…

1 min readApr 30, 2020

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What is cultural?

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Carl Safina

Howling

“The howling fills the valley, seeming to my human brain solemn and yearning as a sacred chant in a cathedral. It reaches right into me…

1 min readApr 30, 2020

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Howling

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Carl Safina

Improbably beautiful

“Like flying flames of red and yellow and blue, they transited overhead. From unbroken forest they flew over the wide river, to vast…

1 min readApr 26, 2020

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Improbably beautiful

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Carl Safina

Reason enough

“Many creatures blow us away at sight, hearing, smell, response time, diving and flying capacities, sonar abilities, migratory and homing…

1 min readApr 26, 2020

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Reason enough

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Carl Safina

Environmental Education Could Not Wait Then, and Cannot Wait Now

By Patricia Paladines

4 min readApr 22, 2020

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Environmental Education Could Not Wait Then, and Cannot Wait Now

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Earth Day Then And, Sadly, Now

The first Earth Day, fifty years ago on April 22 hoisted a bright flag of newly awakening concern for the continued beauty of America and…

7 min readApr 22, 2020

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Earth Day Then And, Sadly, Now

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Carl Safina

Understanding

“Even Chula — smart as she is — cannot talk. Communicate, yes. But talk, no. ‘When we ask things of animals, they often understand us,’…

1 min readApr 16, 2020

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Understanding

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Carl Safina

Carl Safina

1.94K Followers

Ecologist, author. Inaugural holder of Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity, Stony Brook University. SafinaCenter.org, CarlSafina.org

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