Author: Cynthia MossPublisher:
ISBN: 9780831786861
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Echo of the Elephants
Author: Cynthia MossPublisher:
ISBN: 9780831786861
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Echo of the Elephants
Author: David ATTENBOROUGHPublisher:
ISBN: 9786000807399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Amboseli Elephants
Author: Cynthia J. MossPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226542238
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe and Hannibal used them in warfare. This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.
Echo of the Elephants
Author: Moss and ColbeckPublisher:
ISBN: 9780831786861
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Echo is the gentle matriach of a family of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. Watched over by distinguished research scientist and founder of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, Cynthia Moss, Echo leads her charge through the rough and smooth, good times and bad, all captured faithfully on film by award-winning photographer Martyn Colbeck."--Container.
Elephant Memories
Author: Cynthia MossPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614853X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
“A style so conversational…that I felt like a privileged visitor riding beside her in her rickety Land-Rover as she showed me around the park." —The New York Times Book Review Cynthia Moss spent many years living in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park and studying the elephants there, and her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. In this book, she shares a more up-close and personal perspective, chronicling the lives of the elephant families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless, including a rare look at calves and their development. This edition is also updated with a new afterword, catching up on the families, covering current conservation issues, and “celebrating a species from which we could learn some moral as well as zoological lessons” (Chicago Tribune). “One is soon swept away by this ‘Babar’ for adults. By the end, one even begins to feel an aversion for people. One wants to curse human civilization and cry out, ‘Now God stand up for the elephants!’”—The New York Times “Moss speaks to the general reader, with charm as well as scientific authority…[An] elegantly written and ingeniously structured account.”—TheWall Street Journal “Any reader interested in animals will be captivated.”—Publishers Weekly
Twenty-one Elephants and Still Standing
Author: April Jones PrincePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061844887X
Category : Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, P.T. Barnum and his twenty- one elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe.
Elephant Woman
Author: Laurence PringlePublisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr. Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition "as a type of interaction which results in the repetition of certain communicative events," and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr. Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology.
The Secret Elephants
Author: Gareth PattersonPublisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143027204
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The elephants of the Knysna forest have long been the subject of mystery and conjecture. Over the years they have taken on an almost mythical quality, with many doubting whether they existed at all. In 1994 the local forestry department maintained that there was only one surviving Knysna elephant, the seldom seen female known as The Matriarch. The Knysna elephant was thus described as 'functionally extinct'. This was the official stance until September 2000 when forest guard Wilfred Oraai encountered and photographed a young bull from a distance of some thirty metres. The question arose: who was its mother? And, indeed, who was its father? In 2001 Gareth Patterson began an independent study of the Knysna elephant. For the next seven years he covered thousands of kilometres on foot, following ancient elephant paths through the dense Afromontane forest and the surrounding mountain fynbos. He found abundant signs to suggest that, far from dying out, the Knysna elephants are, quietly and secretly, holding their own. Patterson's fieldwork, and his dna research in collaboration with conservation geneticist Lori Eggert, established that at least five young females exist, lending support to Patterson's growing evidence that the Knysna forest and its surroundings are home to a small herd of young elephants. The Secret Elephants is the story of these remarkable animals that fought their way back from the brink of extinction without any help from humankind.
The Elephants' Guide to Hide-and-Seek
Author: Kjersten HayesPublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728230012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Elephants are great at many things...playing hide-and-seek is not one of them. The Elephant Hobby and Sport League is here to help all those frustrated, always "found" elephants out there with The Elephants' Guide to Hide-and-Seek. This handy guide offers sympathy, support, and superior hiding solutions to elephants who long to overcome their size disadvantage when playing hide-and-seek. A hilarious tongue-in-cheek book perfect for elephants and their best human pals. Readers of Have You Seen Elephant? will love this silly elephant game of hide and seek, and all its handy tips and tricks for hiding!
Modoc
Author: Ralph HelferPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061748285
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn't put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mind—nor will I ever. The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy will thrill all animal lovers." —Betty White A captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure that spans several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most remarkable true stories ever told, perfect for fans of The Zookeeper's Wife or Water for Elephants. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again: through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. As the African Sun-Times put it, Modoc is "heartwarming. . . probably the greatest love story ever told."