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Krista Tippett, host: How to get to the heart of the human experience without speaking? This question drove Alan Rabinowitz, after a childhood with a severe stutter, to become a wildlife biologist and explorer — “the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation.” He died this month at age 64.

Soon after the PhD, he was lucky to land a job as a research fellow and staff zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, and a few months.

He was known for his work with big cats, his discovery of new animal species, and for documenting human cultures believed to be lost. His work took our understanding of the animal-human bond to new places. Just as intriguingly, Alan Rabinowitz made an intimacy with remote places in the human spirit part of his adventure and his wisdom.

Alan Rabinowitz: I have come face to face with wild tigers.

I’ve come face to face with jaguars, lions — all of them.

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Rabinowitz, who died this week at the age of 64, saved the lives of countless tigers, jaguars and other at-risk species.

Now, fear was definitely a part of the menagerie of feelings that ran through me. But I also felt flattered to be in the presence of this unbelievable wildness that we don’t feel during our everyday lives.

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