Traditionally, people refused to admit that animals have consciousness, that they know how to love and grieve, that they are capable of empathy. Man ascribes these qualities only to himself. Prone to narcissism, he considers the rest of the living world only material to satisfy his needs. Carl Safina's landmark book draws on decades of field observations and exciting neuroscience discoveries. This is a careful look of a caring scientist on the behavior of animals, a challenge to outdated ideas about their emotions and lifestyle. Points of great travel - Amboseli National Park (Kenya), Yellowstone National Park, cold waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Elephants, wolves, dolphins and killer whales are the heroes of a fascinating and instructive story about the morals and feelings of the inhabitants of the savannah, forests and seas. Their behavior makes you think about the place of man in the world, about whether he has the right to consider himself a measure of all things and the most perfect creation of nature.