Fair Oaks California Performing Arts Center - Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre

Lecture: Exploring Our Wild Nature — Wolves, Chimps & Gorillas

What does it mean to be human? In this engaging presentation, Ronan Donovan shares stories and imagery gathered during months spent living alongside wolves, chimpanzees, and gorillas in the wild. Through intimate encounters and striking photography, he reveals how these highly social animals build relationships, communicate, cooperate, and adapt to their environments.

Blending science, storytelling, and conservation, Ronan offers audiences a powerful look at the similarities between humans and our fellow social mammals — and what we can learn from them about connection, empathy, and survival in an increasingly changing world.