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Fletcher Agency
Melissa Chinchillo |
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THE SOUL OF LIVING CREATURES
What Animals Can Teach Us About Communication, Relationships, and Spirituality
When Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, died in September 2006, an estimated 300 million viewers around the globe tuned in to watch his memorial service broadcast live from an amphitheater in his home town of Beerwah, Queensland. In the wake of his death, print and broadcast media worldwide related countless stories of humans' affection for animals. Highlighting this tremendous cross-cultural response, the Dalai Lama, in a special address from Irwin's Australia Zoo, spoke of "reminding ourselves that we are part of nature taking care of animals is essential to developing more happiness in human beings."
THE SOUL OF LIVING CREATURES explores our human relationship with animals in our homes, zoos, and in the natural world. Recalling stories of animals and people from the author's past twenty years in veterinary specialty practice, Virga examines lessons from animal behavior and human-animal interrelationships to reveal key principles about human relationships, communication, and spirituality. At once insightful, empathic, and provocative, THE SOUL OF LIVING CREATURES illuminates basic traits that humans and animals share which are crucial in nurturing ourselves and our relationships with others.
Dr. Virga is a distinguished practitioner and internationally recognized leader in animal behaviour. His expertise spans the animal kingdom from cats and dogs to giraffes, leopards, gibbons, wolves and other wild species. He is the country's preeminent veterinarian specializing in zoo animal behavior and the only board-certified veterinary behaviorist in North America in zoological practice. As the founding president of Veterinary Healing Arts, Dr. Virga consults nationally to zoos, wild animal parks, aquariums, aviaries, and corporations including Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom and the Animal Behavior Management Alliance. He also attends to the behavioral care of animals in his private practice in the countryside of southern New England.
An internationally recognized expert on animal behavior and our relationships with animals, Dr. Virga has been interviewed on ABC World News and appeared as a featured guest on National Geographic Explorer, PBS Nature, and PBS Wild TV. Please visit www.vintvirga.com to see videos of some of these television appearances.
Dr. Virga is a distinguished practitioner and internationally recognized leader in animal behaviour. His expertise spans the animal kingdom from cats and dogs to giraffes, leopards, gibbons, wolves and other wild species. He is the country's preeminent veterinarian specializing in zoo animal behavior and the only board-certified veterinary behaviorist in North America in zoological practice. As the founding president of Veterinary Healing Arts, Dr. Virga consults nationally to zoos, wild animal parks, aquariums, aviaries, and corporations including Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom and the Animal Behavior Management Alliance. He also attends to the behavioral care of animals in his private practice in the countryside of southern New England.
An internationally recognized expert on animal behavior and our relationships with animals, Dr. Virga has been interviewed on ABC World News and appeared as a featured guest on National Geographic Explorer, PBS Nature, and PBS Wild TV. Please visit www.vintvirga.com to see videos of some of these television appearances.