![]() I first started thinking about it when a former student, Bill, wrote saying he was terminally ill and what would I think about his having a “sky burial” on my property in Maine? He wanted to leave his body to the ravens. How did you come to write a book about animal death? ![]() A condensed and edited version of the interviews follows. We spoke at the Trailside Nature Museum on the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in northern Westchester County, and later by telephone. Heinrich’s book “Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death” was published last summer by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Heinrich was a champion marathoner.)Īnd lately he has been studying how animals die.ĭr. ![]() Also among these works are a memoir and a 2002 book on running, “Why We Run: A Natural History.” (In the 1980s, Dr. ![]() Over the years he has translated his observations into 17 popular books on nature and the animal world, including ones on bumblebees, dung beetles, owls and geese. Heinrich, 72, sees the New England forest as a living laboratory to study nature’s changes. The cabin has no indoor plumbing and no electricity, he says - just a tree growing inside it.Īn emeritus biology professor at the University of Vermont, Dr. ![]() For much of the year, Bernd Heinrich spends his time at a cabin he built in a remote forest in western Maine. ![]()
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