An elephant's life : an intimate portrait from Africa
(2012)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
599.674/O'CONNELL,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 599.674/O'CONNELL,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, [2012]
©2012
DESCRIPTION

ix, 192 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 x 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780762763740 (hbk.), 0762763744 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

On location -- Family life -- A baby is born -- The adolescent bull -- The boys' club -- Sex in bull city -- The end of a reign -- Camp 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"--

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