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Living Like Animals: Field Notes on African Wildlife (Expanded Edition)
What can wild animals teach us about being alive?
Completed · 69 episodes
Buy for ¥128.00
Audio in Chinese
0. How Do Wild Animals Live in Africa? 1. The Neighbors of Serengeti National Park 2. Wildebeest Chasing Rain: A Keystone of the Savanna 3. The Lindi Man-Eating Lions: When Lions Behave Abnormally 4. Boy C of the Super Pride: Transfers of Power in Lion Society 5. Look Deeply and Compassion Follows: Why Do Lions Live in Groups? 6. At Last I Found My Lions: The Dehua Family 7. Malaika’s Sons: For the Fastest Cheetahs, Love Is a Chase 8. An Afternoon with Sheila’s Family: The Gentle Strength of a Solitary Mother Cheetah Bonus | Why Does Africa Have Lions but No Tigers? 9. The Leopard: A Proud Killer Covered in Rosettes 10. Echo Walks on Tiptoe: Only an Elephant Can Bear an Elephant’s Burden 11. Why Must Stray Cats Be Neutered? African Wildcats Are Disappearing 12. Don’t Move—Its Ears Are Up: Caracals and Servals of Amboseli 13. Notorious, Cheerful, and Screaming: The Spotted Hyena, Master Cleaner 14. The Small Jackal’s Survival Philosophy: Follow the Crowd and Pick Up the Leftovers 15. A Race Against Time: Saving Black and Northern White Rhinos 16. Giraffe Courtship: Risk Lightning for a Neck Long Enough to Win 17. Black-and-White Stripes Are Proof of My Cleverness: Zebras of the Grassland 18. An Antelope Wonders: “Why Is That Person Calling Me a Deer?” 19. The Power-Loving Olive Baboon: A Bully Who Wins Everything with His Fists Bonus | “Cherries Red, Plantains Green”: Song Poetry and the Aesthetics of African Wildlife 20. “Rainforest Changes How You Understand Life”: Cooperation and Symbiosis as Its Theme 21. A Round Belly Is the Price of Victory: Searching for Magumba the Gorilla World Animal Day Bonus | Let Animals Grow Freely in Their Natural State 22. Feeling a Richer World Through Vibrations Underfoot: Forest Elephants Who Love Rain 23. Chimpanzee War: The Victorious Alpha Chooses Unity over Violence 24. “Endangered but Not Yet Gone”: Defending Mountain Gorillas 25. The Mysterious Okapi: Donkey Body, Zebra Hindquarters, Giraffe Head 26. Mandrills of Gabon’s Rainforest, Clothed in Extraordinary Colors 27. “Hiss—Watch Your Step, a Venomous Snake”: The Gaboon Viper 28. Flamingos by Ol Doinyo Lengai: Beautiful Birds of a Highly Alkaline Lake 29. Climb Lengai by Night to Seek Ancient Footprints Near Heaven 30. Endangered Vultures: Black Birds That Do Not Mean Death but Clean the Earth 31. The Locust-Eating King of the Highlands: Display Is a Male Gelada’s Chance to Survive 32. Elusive Highland Spirits: The Intelligent Ethiopian Wolf 33. Small Lives on Equatorial Snow Peaks Sound Their Highest Notes 34. Large Animals of Mount Kenya: “They Were Born Free!” 35. Lions of Ngorongoro Crater: Cross the Rocks and Break Out of an Ecological Island 36. Belly Up Beside Lisa, Rolling Playfully: A Wetland Lioness’s Survival Secret 37. Why Move Elephants? A Mass Death of Southern Savanna Elephants 38. “Don’t Disturb Its Thoughts or You’ll Get Hit”: The Water-Loving Hippopotamus 39. A Hunting Team That Votes: African Wild Dogs Lock On and Succeed 40. Even a Carrot on the Ground Must Be Picked Up Head-High: The Grass-Pretending African Buffalo 41. “Can You Catch a Crocodile on a Line?” The Nile Crocodile Rules the Water 42. Cichlids Have Love Troubles Too: The Diverse Double-Mouthed Fish of the Wetlands 43. Where Water Meets Sky, Birds Compete in Splendor: “Africa’s Representative Bird Election” Bonus | A Solitary Figure Deep by the River: The Last Lioness 44. Come Home Covered in Mud and Be Turned Away by Your Parents: Playful Meerkats 45. Ring-Beaked Penguins of the Islands: Burrowing Experts at Catching Fish 46. Standing Leaps and Acrobatic Skill: Lemurs of Madagascar 47. A “Shark Butcher” Searches for a Tiger Shark: The Dangerous Sharks of the Comoros 48. Swim with Dolphins, Hear Them Speak, Watch Them Rescue People: Bottlenose Sharks’ Nemesis 49. Saving Bleached Coral Reefs Means Protecting Wildlife’s Home 50. Conclusion: Let Respect for Life Transcend Self-Interest and Greed World Sea Turtle Day Bonus | One Less Plastic Bag May Save One More Turtle Year of the Rabbit Bonus | Small Hare, Marvelous Survival: Cycling Energy on the Savanna New Book | Growing into an All-Capable “Hexagonal Warrior” of the Jungle 51. I Think the African Savanna Is Where I Belong 52. Helen the Cheetah Likes to Nap in Weeds After a Hunt 53. Two Motherless Cheetah Cubs: Sisters Crossing the Savanna Together 54. Timid but Facing the Storm: The African Ostrich International Cheetah Day | Only About 7,000 Remain, and Each Is a Grassland Miracle 55. The Endangered Grey Crowned Crane: Flight as a Lifelong Journey 56. Even Brutal Chimpanzees Show Sympathy, Affection, and Self-Sacrifice 57. Friendship Between Warthogs and Banded Mongooses: A Real Zootopia in Africa 58. Beijing Swift, Why Work So Hard? The Footless Bird Commuting Between Beijing and South Africa 59. By the Waterfall, Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees Listen to the Roar 60. Hours of Silence Beside a Snow Leopard: Wildlife Legend George Schaller