Elephant Memories : Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family - Cynthia J. Moss

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Elephant Memories

Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family

By: Cynthia J. Moss

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Paperback | 14 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless. With a new afterword catching up on the families and covering current conservation issues, Moss's story will continue to fascinate animal lovers.

"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!'"—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"Moss speaks to the general reader, with charm as well as scientific authority. . . . [An] elegantly written and ingeniously structured account." —Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal

"Moss tells the story in 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." —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, New York Times Book Review

"A prose-poem celebrating a species from which we could learn some moral as well as zoological lessons." —Chicago Tribune

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Elephants can live to the age of 65; today, even with advances in wildlife conversation, few do. The war against ivory poaching has not been worn. More prosaically, on an over-peopled planet, the elephant is running out of space. Yet, written by one of the foremost researchers in the field, this painstaking study of an elephant family in Kenya's Amboseli National Park has much to warm the heart. Presented partly in a diarial format from the animals' point of view. Moss has the abliilty to get inside the heads of these beasts without ever succumbing to the arch sin of anthropomorphism. And if occasionally, as with so many with a passion for their subject, Moss's treatment verges on the heavy, it's redeemed by the memories we like to believe they possess. (Kirkus UK)

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Acknowledgments	p. 8
Introduction	p. 15
An Amboseli Day 1973-1975	p. 19
Drought 1976	p. 41
Migration 1977	p. 63
Mating 1978	p. 89
Social Relationships 1979	p. 119
Births and Babies 1980	p. 145
Elephants and People 1981	p. 175
Flexibility 1982	p. 203
Population Dynamics 1983	p. 229
Life Cycle and Death 1984	p. 255
Future Generations 1985-1986 and Beyond	p. 283
Epilogue: December 26, 1986	p. 319
Afterword: November 1999	p. 325
Amboseli Elephant Research Project Publications	p. 345
Index	p. 357
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