Elephant Destiny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elephant Destiny write by Martin Meredith. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Elephant Destiny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of exploitation and ivory hunting have taken their toll: now, as wars and poachers continue to ravage its habitat, as disease and political strife deflect attention from its plight, the African elephant faces imminent extinction. What will become of these magnificent beasts? As the elephant's future looms ever darker, Martin Meredith's concise and richly illustrated biography traces the elephant's history from the first ivory expeditions of the Egyptian pharaohs 2500 years ago to today, exploring along the way the indelible imprint the African elephant has made in art, literature, culture, and society. He shares recent extraordinary discoveries about the elephant's sophisticated family and community structure and reveals the remarkable ways in which elephants show compassion and loyalty to each other. Elegant, illuminating, and urgent, Elephant Destiny offers a beautiful and important tribute to one of earth's most magisterial creatures at the very moment it threatens to vanish from being.
Elephant Destiny
Elephant Destiny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elephant Destiny write by Martin Meredith. This book was released on 2003. Elephant Destiny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Elephants
Elephants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elephants write by Ellen Greene Stewart. This book was released on 2022-03-04. Elephants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a leading South African elephant research facility that has been home to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single elephant left alive. Exploring a wide range of topics, this book covers the impact of elephants' interactions with tourists, how they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.
Destiny’s Magical Dream
Destiny’s Magical Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Destiny’s Magical Dream write by J.T. Carruthers. This book was released on 2012-08-14. Destiny’s Magical Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the world and have many adventures? To journey through magical doors, meet new friends, experience new languages, cultures, traditions, and foods. Well, now you can, as you join Destiny in this delightful story. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Destiny’s Magical Dreams is the fi rst of many journeys to come. So be sure to look for future stories as Destiny travels the world.
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant write by Dale Peterson. This book was released on 2020-10-20. Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of years ago and still much discussed today. In Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant, veteran scientific writer Dale Peterson has collected thirty-three essential writings about elephants from across history, with geographical perspectives ranging from Africa and Southeast Asia to Europe and the United States. An introductory headnote for each selection provides additional context and insights from Peterson’s substantial knowledge of elephants and natural history. The first section of the anthology, “Cultural and Classical Elephants,” explores the earliest mentions of elephants in African mythology, Hindu theology, and Aristotle and other ancient Greek texts. “Colonial and Industrial Elephants” finds elephants in the crosshairs of colonial exploitation in accounts pulled from memoirs commoditizing African elephants as a source of ivory, novel targets for bloodsport, and occasional export for circuses and zoos. “Working and Performing Elephants” gives firsthand accounts of the often cruel training methods and treatment inflicted on elephants to achieve submission and obedience. As elephants became an object of scientific curiosity in the mid-twentieth century, wildlife biologists explored elephant families and kinship, behaviors around sex and love, language and self-awareness, and enhanced communications with sound and smell. The pieces featured in “Scientific and Social Elephants” give readers a glimpse into major discoveries in elephant behaviors. “Endangered Elephants” points to the future of the elephant, whose numbers continue to be ravaged by ivory poachers. Peterson concludes with a section on fictional and literary elephants and ends on a hopeful note with the 1967 essay “Dear Elephant, Sir,” which argues for the moral imperative to save elephants as an act of redemption for their systematic abuse and mistreatment at human hands. Essential to understanding the history and experience of this beloved and misunderstood creature, Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant is a must for any elephant lover or armchair environmentalist.
