This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.
Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel__eaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so__lose. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind__f there is such__s unknowable. Permissible questions are __t_ questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden__lways forbidden__s the one question that might open the door: __ho?_ _ Carl Safina
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel__eaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so__lose. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind__f there is such__s unknowable. Permissible questions are __t_ questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden__lways forbidden__s the one question that might open the door: __ho?_ _ Carl Safina
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