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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: Piranhas

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    Writing about animals in scientific journal articles is required to be dry, impersonal. Often when researchers write books about the same animals they show more feeling. George Schaller is an eminent scientist and conservationist (“You have a moral obligation to help protect what you study”) who has written about his research among animals, including mountain…