Most of us live in cities and are used to a "domesticated" nature , for the use and consumption of us human beings. The idyllic and comforting nature of naturalistic oases and theme parks, to understand. Chiara Morosinotto, evolutionary biologist and expert in animal behavior, has been carrying out her studies for many years mainly in the endless forests of Finland . And here he explored an emotion that all animals, including humans, know very well: fear. Like it or not, in fact, hunters are fundamental in the natural world, where everything is based on the relationship between predator and prey, between those who run to feed and those who run to save themselves. Fear is therefore a dominant factor in nature: it determines behaviors, habits, survival strategies. Studying fear becomes a way to understand how ecosystems and the beings that inhabit them work, including us.
In her book "The fear of the lion" (Rizzoli, 2022, pp. 228), written together with her brother Davide - one of the best known children's authors in Italian publishing - Chiara Morosinotto shows us precisely how nature affects in an often unimaginable way on the life of all of us and he does so by proposing a series of examples and anecdotes resulting from his experience in the field.
However, we first ask Chiara Morosinotto how she found herself writing a book, among other things designed for the youngest:
“It was fun and challenging. I had to move from a scientific language to a more popular one so as to make myself understood by the readers and at the same not to bore. My brother Davide was helpful to me, because he has been writing books for children and teenagers for years. The strategy we adopted was that I wrote the entire draft of the book and he made the language more usable ".
