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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: Starfish

  • Where do codfish get their food? Where does the town of Nahant get its revenue?

    When I was a child in Massachusetts, my mother and her best friend used to visit the tidepools at Nahant. They kept salt-water aquariums at a time when no one did that, and they peopled these artificial tidepools with native creatures they collected. Usually they took their children with them, which included me and my…

  • The Dangerous Lives of Treeshrews

    I was reading Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews by Louise H. Emmons because that is the kind of thing I like, and learned about the absentee maternal system found in some treeshrew species. First I should say that treeshrews are the same as tree shrews, and the closing up of the word is…