Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters

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There's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life
changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking
directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it
look back. It happens more often than you’d think and it can be
so profound, there’s a name for it: eye-to-eye epiphany. So what
happens when someone with feathers or fur and claws looks back?
How does it change people, and what can it teach us?

Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From
forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research
suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible
only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership
with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support
from the Kalliopeia Foundation, To The Best Of Our Knowledge
is exploring this theme of "kinship" in a special radio
series.

Original Air Date: February 08, 2020

Guests:

Gavin Van Horn — Jenny Kendler — Ivan
Schwab — Jane Goodall — Alan Lightman

Interviews In This Hour:

In The Eye Of The Osprey: A Physicist's Wild
Epiphany — 100 Bird Eyes Are Watching
You — The Look That Changed
Primatology — Watching the Fierce Green Fire Die:
Animal Gazes That Shaped Conservation Movements — The
600 Million Year History Of The Eye — 'We Are The
Feast' — A Feminist Philosopher's Life-Changing Encounter With A
Crocodile — How Do You Practice Kinship? A Brief
Meditation — Sharing Eye-To-Eye Epiphanies With The
Animal World

Further Reading:

"The Disruptive Eye" by Gavin Van Horn—"6 a.m. on LaSalle Street"
by Katherine Cummings—"Salmon Speak ~ Why Not Earth?" by Bron
Taylor—"The Eyes of an Owl" by Greg Ripley—"From Bestiary" by
Elise Paschen