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Susan McCarthy is co-author with Marjorie Ingall of Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies. Ingall & McCarthy write Sorrywatch.com, a website which analyzes apologies. McCarthy also writes about wildlife and animal behavior. She’s co-author of the international bestseller When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, and author of Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild. Not literally raised by wolves, McCarthy lives in San Francisco.

Category: Curiosity

  • Fearless wildlife

    It was afternoon, not the best time for wildlife spotting. We were on a forest trail by the Wynn Nature Center outside Homer, Alaska. The first of us walked briskly around a bend, spotted a rabbit in a clearing, and froze. The rabbit didn't flee. Perhaps it hadn't noticed him. Two more of us came…

  • Where did I get this bracelet? It’s a long story.

    Curiosity killed the cat. I never heard exactly how. But The History of Borough Fen Decoy,  written by Tony Cook & R.E.M. Pilcher, explains how curiosity killed a lot of ducks. With the help of some dogs. A decoy, in this sense, is not a fake duck meant to encourage real ducks to fly down…