13 Best nature books like Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are by Carl Safina

Cover of Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are by Carl Safina

Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

By: Carl Safina

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of …

"The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it."

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

"Shrinking forests, melting ice, plowed grasslands, raging fires, drying rivers, and dying corals — diminished of all the major habitats, proxy for all who live therein, means that the numbers of free-living animals are the lowest ever, and mostly falling, across the board. It means something acutely awful, I think: that the human species has made itself incompatible with the rest of Life on Earth."

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

"We might pity hunter-gatherers for their stuck simplicity, but we would err. They held extensive knowledge, knew deep secrets of their lands and creatures. And they experienced rich and rewarding lives; we know so because when they were threatened, they fought to hold on to them, to the death. Sadly, this remains true as the final tribal peoples get overwhelmed by miners, loggers, ranchers, and planters who value money above humanity, which is perhaps the most salient characteristic of our culture."

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

If you liked the nature plot in Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are by Carl Safina , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose

1. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

By: Todd Rose

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this ground-breaking book perfect for readers of The Power of Habitand Quiet, Harvard scientist … read more

Similar categories in Todd Rose's The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle

2. The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

By: Merlin Tuttle

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatur… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Tuttle's The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry

3. On Canaan's Side

By: Sebastian Barry

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Narrated by Lilly Bere, 'On Canaan's Side' opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's On Canaan's Side book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • audiobook

4. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

5. Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House

By: Michael Lewis

4.14

Format: 200 pages,

Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bes… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

6. Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

By: David Abram

4.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous--hailed as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles T… read more

Similar categories in David Abram's Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

Cover of Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester

7. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By: Simon Winchester

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence  Williams

8. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

By: Florence Williams

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more

Similar categories in Florence Williams's The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

9. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

10. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

Similar categories in Ed Yong's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

11. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg

12. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

By: Jonathan Meiburg

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Meiburg's A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

13. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Brookshire's Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved by Kenneth Catania

14. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved

By: Kenneth Catania

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This book showcases some strange creatures with unusual capacities. The "star" of the show is the s… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Catania's Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are by Carl Safina

15. Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

By: Carl Safina

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of … read more

Similar categories in Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it."

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

"Shrinking forests, melting ice, plowed grasslands, raging fires, drying rivers, and dying corals — diminished of all the major habitats, proxy for all who live therein, means that the numbers of free…"

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

"We might pity hunter-gatherers for their stuck simplicity, but we would err. They held extensive knowledge, knew deep secrets of their lands and creatures. And they experienced rich and rewarding liv…"

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

Cover of Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris

16. Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

By: Emma Marris

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relatio… read more

Similar categories in Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"It was when I moved to Oregon in 2013 that I really began to examine how conservation did and did not make the lives of individual animals better."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild animals' left."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Cover of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg

17. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more

Similar categories in Justin Gregg's If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World by Ziya Tong

18. The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

By: Ziya Tong

4.21

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look … read more

Similar categories in Ziya Tong's The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system."

-Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

Cover of Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson

19. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery

By: Paul Jepson

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more

Similar categories in Paul Jepson's Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • nature
  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Devil Is Fine by John Vercher

20. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's Devil Is Fine book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

Cover of Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone by Netta Weinstein

21. Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone

By: Netta Weinstein

3.66

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma… read more

Similar categories in Netta Weinstein's Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone book and Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

  • nonfiction
  • science

15 Best audiobook books like Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are by Carl Safina

Transform Your Habits

On Canaan's Side

Sebastian Barry

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Simon Winchester

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

View all the books

23 Top audiobook books like Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved by Kenneth Catania

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

Lisa Schneidau

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.