Alan Rabinowitz and the Jaguar

Abstract

What is it in a human brain that allows some individuals to like to wait when placed in a situation where most people, consumed by fear, would bolt? There are two brain chemicals that appear to enable an individual’s capacity to wait. Both seem to do this by “modulating” ort enabling the value of waiting for a reward to come. There are two great enablers of waiting, the neuromodulators dopamine and serotonin. In this chapter I’ll attempt to exemplify the operation of the neuromodulator serotonin in the life of the scientist, author, and big cat expert, Alan Rabinowitz. Fort the operation of dopamine, I’ll look at, amongst others, the famous sniper, Chris Kyle.