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    Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants
    Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants
    Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants
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    Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants

    Written by Hannah Mumby

    Narrated by Gemma Lawrence

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    What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, eye-opening account that brings into focus this species remarkably similar to humans—and makes a persuasive argument for saving them.

    From early childhood, Dr. Hannah Mumby has loved wildlife, especially elephants. Her first wild elephant sighting at twenty-four changed the course of her life. Since then, she has devoted herself to studying these incredible animals and educating humanity about them. Hannahs field work has taken her around the world, where she has studied many elephant groups, including both orphaned elephants and the solitary elephant males.

    These remarkable animals have so much to teach us, Mumby argues, and Elephants takes readers into their world as never before, revealing a society as complex as the chimpanzees, maybe even humans. Mumby's exploration of elephant culture provides an empathetic, humanistic portrait of these majestic animals, illuminating their personalities, memories, and rich emotional lives. Mumby explains how elephants communicate with one another and demonstrates the connection between memory and trauma—how it affects individual elephants and their interactions with others in their herd. Elephants and humans, Mumby makes clear, are not very different. From emotional bonding to communication, human and elephant experience similarly nuanced lives, and the commonalities she uncovers are both surprising and heartwarming.

    Elephants is a captivating, deeply moving exploration that offers a new way to look at these pachyderms and ourselves and a persuasive, passionate argument for rethinking our approach to animals and their conservation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 12, 2020
    ISBN9780062987891
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    Hannah Mumby

    Hannah Mumby is an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, where she leads the Applied Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Lab­oratory, and a researcher at the Centre for African Ecology at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She was a Fulbright Scholar for the Depart­ment for Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Science at Colorado State University and a fellow at the Department of Zoology at Pembroke College, Uni­versity of Cambridge. She has presented her research at the Houses of Parliament, and her work has been featured in the Daily Mail and on IFLScience as well as on The Naked Scientists podcast, among other science and nature outlets. She is the recipient of the 2020 ASAB Christopher Barnard Award for Out­standing Contributions by a New Investigator.

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      It was a fantastic book full of great information fun to learn about elephants and what makes them tick and the wonderful people that put their lives into this so we can know this because unfortunately we just can’t go outside and find an elephant like we can dogs and cats oh how I wish we could. As in The birth life and death of anything there’s sad times there’s funny times , and deeply moving times this book covered it all great book