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

by Cynthia J. Moss

A long-term portrait of elephant family life in Amboseli

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    Praise from the New York Times Book Review

    Sarah Blaffer Hrdy praises the book's conversational storytelling.

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A long-term portrait of elephant family life in Amboseli

Drawing on decades of observation in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, Cynthia J. Moss organizes her account around an elephant family led across generations by several matriarchs, including Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless. The book uses individual animals and their relationships to illuminate the social lives of wild elephants, keeping the focus on family bonds, leadership, and daily behavior in a natural setting. An afterword returns to these families a few years later and brings conservation concerns into the wider picture, linking close observation with the pressures facing elephants in the wild.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in elephant behavior and mammal social structures
  • Fans of field-based natural history and wildlife observation
  • Readers seeking books that connect animal lives with conservation issues

Themes

Elephant family relationshipsMatriarchal leadershipWildlife behaviorLong-term field researchConservation

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Book overview

An eye-opening account of the lives and relationships of elephants in the wild in Kenya

Cynthia Moss studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for decades, and her long-term research revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. In Elephant Memories she turns that knowledge in an accessible, engaging, even moving story of individual elephants and their complicated relationships. With Moss as our guide, we get to know a number of elephants who are in a family group that is led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless. and we develop new understanding of what elephants do when allowed to live in the wild. An afterword offers a view of the the families from a few years later and addresses current conservation issues.

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