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Learning to be wild : how animals achieve peace, create beauty, and raise families / Carl Safina.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250838254
  • 1250838258
Uniform titles:
  • Learning to be wild (Young reader's adaptation)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Prologue -- Achieving peace; chimpanzees -- Creating beauty; scarlet macaws -- Raising families; sperm whales -- Epilogue.
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina comes a young readers adaptation of the notable book Becoming Wild that explores community, culture, and belonging through the lives of chimpanzees, macaws, and sperm whales. What do chimpanzees, macaws, and whales all have in common? Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But that's not true! Culture is passed down from parent to child in all sorts of animal communities. It is the common ground that three very different animals - chimpanzees, macaws, and whales - share. Discover through the lives of chimpanzees in Uganda, scarlet macaws in Peru, and sperm whales in the Caribbean how they - and we - are all connected, in this wondrous journey around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 591.782 S128 Available 33111011088560
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 591.782 S128 Available 33111011188105
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From New York Times -bestselling author Carl Safina comes Learning to Be Wild , a young readers adaptation of the notable book Becoming Wild that explores community, culture, and belonging through the lives of chimpanzees, macaws, and sperm whales.

What do chimpanzees, macaws, and whales all have in common?

Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But that's not true! Culture is passed down from parent to child in all sorts of animal communities. It is the common ground that three very different animals - chimpanzees, macaws, and whales - share.

Discover through the lives of chimpanzees in Uganda, scarlet macaws in Peru, and sperm whales in the Caribbean how they - and we - are all connected, in this wonderous journey around the globe.

"A young reader's adaptation" -- Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 205) and index.

"From New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina comes a young readers adaptation of the notable book Becoming Wild that explores community, culture, and belonging through the lives of chimpanzees, macaws, and sperm whales. What do chimpanzees, macaws, and whales all have in common? Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But that's not true! Culture is passed down from parent to child in all sorts of animal communities. It is the common ground that three very different animals - chimpanzees, macaws, and whales - share. Discover through the lives of chimpanzees in Uganda, scarlet macaws in Peru, and sperm whales in the Caribbean how they - and we - are all connected, in this wondrous journey around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Ages 10-14 Roaring Brook Press.

Grades 7-9 Roaring Brook Press.

Prologue -- Achieving peace; chimpanzees -- Creating beauty; scarlet macaws -- Raising families; sperm whales -- Epilogue.

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