Caitlin O’Connell

Conservation biologist, Harvard Medical School; photographer; author

Conservation biologist, currently on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.  Also a photographer and award-winning author  of  “Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves”

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Cailtin O’Connell, author of “Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves,” shares insights into the ways in which elephants relate.

Here’s what ‘Wild Rituals’ author Caitlin O’Connell learned from the elephants

Cailtin O’Connell, author of “Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves,” shares insights into the ways in which elephants relate.

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