Elephant Memories

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Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family

Cynthia J. Moss

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University of Chicago Press
15 July 2000

Mathematics & Sciences; Zoology: Mammals; Conservation of wildlife & habitats

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

By: Cynthia J. Moss
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780226542379
ISBN 10: 0226542378
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 15 July 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cynthia F. Moss is a professor of psychology and member of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the coeditor of Neuroethological Studies on Cognitive and Perceptual Processes.

Reviews for Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family

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)