Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters

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Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

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🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Exchanging glances with the natural world happens more often than you’d think. It can be so profound, there’s a
name for it: eye-to-eye epiphany.

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

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anne's Train Champs, and today's to the best of our knowledge is all about the eyes,
0:12.4	about a kind of visual encounter that for some people is life-changing.
0:18.5	I'm talking about a cross-species gaze, the experience of looking directly into
0:23.5	the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. This happens more often than
0:29.4	you'd think, and it can be so profound. There's a name for it, an eye-to-eye epiphany.
0:36.0	What is it? How does it change people?
0:38.3	And what can it teach us?
0:40.3	Keep listening.
0:56.1	It's to the best of our knowledge.
1:02.7	Can an eye-to-eye encounter with an animal change your life?
1:12.2	My wife is a painter, and every summer we spend on a little island in Maine,
1:16.2	and there's an Osprey's nest that's a couple hundred feet from the house.
1:22.6	This is Alan Lightman. He's a physicist at MIT and a novelist.
1:32.3	Every year, for 15 years or so, the Ospreys would conduct their family life there. And one summer I had been watching the babies as they grew from the beginning of June to mid-August.
1:39.3	We sort of watched each other all summer along, and then middle of August the baby Ospreys took
1:46.3	their first flight, the first time they had left the nest all summer.
1:54.6	I was washing them from the second floor of our house, which has a circular deck.
2:00.2	They did one loop around the island,
2:02.6	and then they headed straight for me
2:05.6	as I stood on this circular deck.
2:08.6	These were young adult Ospre, so they were pretty big,
2:11.6	and an Osprey has very powerful talents.
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