Book by Moss Cynthia
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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
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.
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Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Photograps mostly by Cynthis Moss; Drawings by David Pratt; Diagrams by Liz Jarvis. Green illustrated wraps are clean with light wear to extremities; glued binding is tight and solid, all pages intact, square, no spine creasing. Pages are toned, more so along edges, quite clean, no markings of any kind. Cynthis Moss has lived with the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over 15 years, spending hours with them nearly every day. She writes about one particular elephant family, observing the daily drama of their lives: the search for food; the joyful reunions; mating and birth; the struggle against drought, disease, poachers, and tourism; and the poignant way they remember the dead. 299 pages, indexed. 7" x 4.25". 1992, Ivy Books/Ballantine Publishing, New York. N° de réf. du vendeur 027592
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