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A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. Now a conservationist of tigers and jaguars, an explorer of the world's last wild places, he has extraordinary insight into both animals and the human condition.
A jaguar peers out from the tall grasses.
» Whale Songs and Elephant Loves
Acoustic biologist Katy Payne was first to discover that humpback whales compose ever-changing song to communicate and first to understand that elephants communicate with one another across long distances by infrasound. She tells us what she's learned about life in this world from two of its largest and most mysterious creatures.
» The Last Pure Pygmy and His Gift
[video, 4:52]
In the remote border region between Burma and Tibet lives the Taron people, a "pure-blood" race of Mongoloid pygmies on the verge of self-imposed extinction. Rabinowitz shares his encounter with one family member, Dawi, who saw the "deep, deep hole" existing within both men — and the bounty of that friendship in his own life.
» A Pictorial Corridor of Big Cats and Rabinowitz [photo slideshow]
Explore the world of Alan Rabinowitz in his work that spans the continents — from the jaguar corridors of Brazil to the nature preserves for tigers in Burma.
» The Gift of Stuttering and Animals
This here is one of those dreaded cuts we had to make. And it was nearly 10 minutes of quality storytelling about a debilitating stutter and the comfort of animals. But we opened up the unedited interview and excerpted this segment for all ears to listen via this beautiful thing called the In-ter-net.
» A Twittercript
Some gems from our live-tweeting of Krista's interview with Rabinowitz.
» Reflection on the Human/Animal Bond
Our producer explores the bond she shares with her dog, Oban.
» The Elusive Footage of Elephants Mourning
Compelling video of elephants mourning the death of a calf, and a magnificent segment on the secret language of elephants.
Alan Rabinowitz
Rabinowitz is a zoologist and wildlife conservationist. He is founder and CEO of Panthera and the author of Life in the Valley of Death and Beyond the Last Village.
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