Wild Echoes: Encounters With the Most
Endangered Animals in North America
Charles
Bergman, 325 pages, softcover: $21.95. University of Illinois
Press, 2003.
Biologists know that human activities are
causing thousands of species to go extinct. According to Bergman,
our attitudes contribute to extinction just as much as our
automobiles do. By imagining animals as separate from us, as
something that we must control and dominate, we treat them not as
neighbors but as aliens. Bergman describes up-close experiences
with endangered creatures ranging from black-footed ferrets to
California condors, and in the process helps renew our commitment
to saving them.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Wild Echoes: Encounters With the Most Endangered Animals in North America.
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