Astonishing Elephant Tapa blanda - 2001

Australia: Flamingo, 2001. 300pp. includes Index. B/w photos. Light wear to cover. Light creasing to front top & rear corners. Binding tight, pages clean. Shana Alexander travelled the world for this story, interviewing the zoologists, biologists and other researchers who are devoting their lives to the mysteries of elephants. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2001-03-28. Paperback. Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

ISBN: 9780732269531
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd | 28 March 2001
Paperback | 336 pages
Description
The Astonishing Elephant is an unabashed celebration of these mysterious creatures, whose closest living relatives are the dugong and the hyrax. "they have," Alexander writes, "essential nobility,grace, serenity, sagacity, loyalty and playfulness, a simple goodness, a alack of animosity - unless provoked." While she admits elephants can pose particular dangers to unwary humans (she recounts tales of circus trainers of her acquaintance, some of whom fell in action), they are too often the victims in any interaction with people. the elephant's fortunes have long been declining: where only a few thousand years ago several species roamed the earth, by 1980 the combined wild populations in Africa and Asia numbered fewer than 100,000 individuals.