Elephant Memories - Thirteen Years In The Life Of An Elephant Family

Science & Math

Moss, Cynthia

Biological Sciences

Ballantine Books

Portraits in the Wild: Behavior Studies of East African Mammals

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Univ of Chicago Pr

Synthesizes the results of some of the more recent systematic observations and studies of the behavior of fifteen major East African species, including the elephant, giraffe, black rhinoceros, zebra, wildebeest, lion, and spotted hyena

Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behavior in East Africa

Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes

How do bats catch insects in the dark? How do bees learn which flowers to visit? How do food-storing birds remember where their hoards are? Questions like these are addressed by neuroethology, the branch of behavioral neuroscience concerned with analyzing the neural bases of naturally occurring behaviors.This book brings together thirteen chapters

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Shettleworth, Sara J.

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

From Danny Yee:Cynthia Moss is best known for her work on African elephants, but in Portraits in the Wild she surveys the large mammals of East Africa more broadly. There are chapters on the elephant, the giraffe, the black rhinoceros, zebras, antelopes (dikdik, gerenuk, impala, Uganda kob, wildebeest and eland), baboons, big cats (lion, cheetah and leopard) and the spotted hyena.Moss' focus is on behaviour and social structure, especially mating systems and breeding. The radically different mating and territorial systems of antelope species, for example, are linked to their ecological niches.There's also some information about conservation, poaching, and human attitudes to different species: baboons as "born criminals", for examples, or the changing sentiment towards lions.Moss also includes a bit about the researchers who carried out the studies she summarises, and the observational methodologies involved.There's almost no quantitative data in Portraits, let alone any formal life-cycle theory or ecology - there's not a single diagram, table or figure. (There is, however, a nice if grainy selection of black and white halftones.) The presentation is discursive and approachable, with something of the feel of a wildlife documentary.Portraits in the Wild was first written in 1975 and revised in 1982, so it is based on research from the 60s and 70s (for some species the first serious studies of behaviour) and is obviously dated. No more recent treatment of this kind exists, however, so it's still useful background reading for visitors to Africa. (A better choice for field use would be a book like Richard Estes' The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals, which has a similar focus on behaviour and social structure but covers many more species and is structured as a guide.)

Houghton, Mifflin Company

A study of the lives of members of an elephant clan, this account represents the result of thirteen years of field observation and a sensitive profile of individual animals

Elephant Memories: 13 Years in the Life of an Elephant Family

A photographic and textual record of eighteen months in the lives of one elephant family in Kenya's Amboseli National Park presents photographs and a text that offer insights into every aspect of the elephants' lives. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing.

ECHO OF THE ELEPHANTS: THE STORY OF AN ELEPHANT FAMILY. (SIGNED).

Biographies & Memoirs

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

William Morrow & Co.

A photographic and textual record of eighteen months in the lives of one elephant family in Kenya's Amboseli National Park presents photographs and a text that offer insights into every aspect of the elephants' lives. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing.

Echo of the Elephants: The Story of an Elephant Family

Quill

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