NYT Notable Books 2020 - Nonfiction

 

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1. Becoming wild: how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace

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Author:
Safina, Carl, 1955-
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Description:
"Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance....

2. Owls of the Eastern ice: a quest to find and save the world's largest owl

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Author:
Slaght, Jonathan C.
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Description:
"A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia"--