The Astonishing Elephant

preview-18
  • The Astonishing Elephant Book Detail

  • Author : Shana Alexander
  • Release Date : 2000
  • Publisher : Random House (NY)
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 344
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 84,84 MB

The Astonishing Elephant by Shana Alexander PDF Summary

Book Description: "Physiologically, elephants are unique - entirely different from all other mammals. Yet, since antiquity, observers have agreed that the elephant is the animal most akin to man." "Today both species of elephant - Africans and Asians - stand on the brink of extinction. Hope is arising, however, from a new generation of young American scientists, many of them women. Female zoologists and biologists have led the field in new findings about elephant ecology, family and sexual patterns, and the animals' continual communication by ultrasound, inaudible to human ears." "The Astonishing Elephant also reveals, for the first time, a hair-raising story of elephant "genocide": in the years between the Civil War and World War I, all male elephants in U. S. circuses were stealthily killed - shot, poisoned, drowned, and even hanged. The reason was musth, a periodic condition of mature males that renders them uncontrollable. So, gradually, only female elephants - now with masculine names - were put on parade, with none the wiser." "Most important, The Astonishing Elephant details a decade of heartbreaking trial and error and eventual triumph as scientists have tried to learn how to breed elephants via artificial insemination."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Astonishing Elephant books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Astonishing Elephant

The Astonishing Elephant

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 8046 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Physiologically, elephants are unique - entirely different from all other mammals. Yet, since antiquity, observers have agreed that the elephant is the animal

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

File Size : 84,84 MB
Total View : 304 Views
DOWNLOAD

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in

Elephant Reflections

Elephant Reflections

File Size : 66,66 MB
Total View : 5286 Views
DOWNLOAD

Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illumin

How to Be an Elephant

How to Be an Elephant

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 1396 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This nonfiction picture book follows an elephant's growth from a newborn calf to a full-grown adult in one of the most socially and structurally complex family