Carl Safina is an ecologist and a MacArthur Fellow. His latest book is Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. He holds the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founder of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He is author of numerous books on the human relationship with the rest of the living world. More at CarlSafina.org and SafinaCenter.org.