CARL SAFINA is an ecologist and the author of Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace, ak Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. He is a recipient of Pew, MacArthur, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundation fellowships, and has written for Nouvèl Èdikay, Tan, Gadyen an, ak National Geographic. He lives on Long Island, New York.