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Elephant Memories

Elephant Memories
Author: Cynthia Moss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 022614853X

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“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


Elephant's Life

Elephant's Life
Author: Caitlin O'connell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0762775610

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An Elephant’s Life provides a unique and fascinating immersion into the world of the African elephant, told by a leading field biologist who has been researching and photographing these animals in their natural habitat for nearly two decades. Here, for the first time, readers get a fuller picture of elephant society cast in a broader context, including the life of the male elephant in all its high drama.


An African Love Story

An African Love Story
Author: Daphne Sheldrick
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0141966777

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Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist. A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade. An African Love Story is the incredible memoir of her life. It tells two stories - one is the extraordinary love story which blossomed when Daphne fell head over heels with Tsavo Game Park and its famous warden, David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne and David, who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans, at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive. 'Compulsively readable', Mail on Sunday 'An enchanting memoir', Telegraph Daphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years, she and her husband, David, the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park, raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, zebra, eland, kudu, impala, warthogs and many other smaller animals. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen.


How to Be an Elephant

How to Be an Elephant
Author: Katherine Roy
Publisher: David Macaulay Studio
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1626721785

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"This nonfiction picture book follows an elephant's growth from a newborn calf to a full-grown adult in one of the most socially and structurally complex family groups on earth."--


The Elephants Come Home

The Elephants Come Home
Author: Kim Tomsic
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1797201085

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The amazing true story of a herd of elephants, the man who saved them, and the miracle of love that brought them home. One day in 1999, Lawrence Anthony and Françoise Malby hear that a herd of wild African elephants need a new home. They welcome the elephants to their wildlife sanctuary—Thula Thula—with open arms. But the elephants are much less sure they want to stay. How will Lawrence prove to them that they are safe and loved? What follows is a gorgeously illustrated real-life story of a friendship . . . and the story of the miraculous way that love given freely will return—greater and more wonderful than it began. • TOUCHING ANIMAL FRIENDSHIPS: Owen and Mzee, Tarra and Bella, Rescue and Jessica . . . touching true stories of the emotional bonds possible between species are charming, and speak to the limitlessness of love. • ELEPHANT APPEAL: Elephants are one of the most fascinating and charming wild animals in all of nature. This heartwarming true story will intrigue and inspire children, and turn even the most reluctant readers into elephant enthusiasts. • CONSERVATION THEME: This book tells the true story of caring for one of the world's most beloved endangered animals: the African elephant. This book is a great, upbeat jumping-off point for discussions of the importance of preserving endangered species and their environments. • ENGAGING NONFICTION: There's no better way to get readers hooked on factual books than to offer them real-life stories with heart and meaning. • STRONG CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning about animal habitats/biomes in K–2 curriculums, while later grades address topics like conservation and endangered species. With a depth of research and an engaging, highly visual narrative, this book is an excellent resource for librarians and primary school educators. Perfect for: • Kindergarten and elementary school teachers • Parents and grandparents • Librarians • Lovers of animals, wildlife, and the natural world • Zoo and natural history museumgoers


A Baby Elephant in the Wild

A Baby Elephant in the Wild
Author: Caitlin O'Connell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0544149440

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With in-the-field photographs, this photo essay brings young children to the African scrub desert to witness how a baby elephant survives in the wild.


Elephant Trails

Elephant Trails
Author: Nigel Rothfels
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1421442604

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Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."


The Life of an Elephant

The Life of an Elephant
Author: Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1897
Genre: Animal attacks
ISBN:

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The Elephant in the Brain

The Elephant in the Brain
Author: Kevin Simler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190495995

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Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is the elephant in the brain. Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly - to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights. Then, once everything is clearly visible, we can work to better understand ourselves: Why do we laugh? Why are artists sexy? Why do we brag about travel? Why do we prefer to speak rather than listen? Our unconscious motives drive more than just our private behavior; they also infect our venerated social institutions such as Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, and Religion. In fact, these institutions are in many ways designed to accommodate our hidden motives, to serve covert agendas alongside their official ones. The existence of big hidden motives can upend the usual political debates, leading one to question the legitimacy of these social institutions, and of standard policies designed to favor or discourage them. You won't see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.


Would an Elephant Enjoy the Seaside?

Would an Elephant Enjoy the Seaside?
Author: Camilla de la Bedoyere
Publisher: QED Publishing
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781781716670

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Would an Elephant Enjoy the Seaside? provides a hilarious and informative introduction into the life of an elephant. By imagining animals in everyday scenarios readers can learn about their size, diet and other features. If an African elephant went to school for a day, what might she get up to? They wouldn't be best suited to the library, when they want to talk elephants raise their trunks and trumpet very loudly! Engaging question and answer format will keep young readers entertained and help them to understand and retain animal facts. The new titles in this series are: Could a Crocodile Play Basketball? 978-1-78171-586-4 Would an Elephant Enjoy the Seaside? 978-1-78171-585-7