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This is the Elephant book I've been waiting for! I love Elephants and have read several books about these magnificent animals. However, most books either focus on Elephants in human history (Elephant Destiny is a good book for this), photographs (such as Karl Ammann's recent Elephant Reflections), or the memoirs of conservation biologists who study Elephants (The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa unfortunately fell into this category). Cynthia Moss' Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family is different - it is 100% about Elephants, their lives, their struggles, and personalities. Aside from some essential context about her research, Moss removes herself from the narrative and tells the story of the Elephant families in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

While we know Elephants are intelligent and can communicate, we can't speak to them directly to learn about their lives. However, Cynthia Moss comes extremely close. She provides an account of Elephant life in the same way a sociologist might depict a lost human tribe. Moss gives each Elephant a name and describes his or her personality. At the beginning of the book, Moss includes a family tree of the Elephants in the book. Each chapter covers a separate topic ("Migration," "Mating," etc.). At the end of the chapter, Moss includes a list of the family members whom she discussed during that chapter so readers can follow who survived. By the end, the reader will come to know some Elephants particularly well, the "TC" and "TD" family, including Teresia and Slit Ear.

If Cynthia Moss is still writing on Elephants, I would love to see if she has any updates about the Amboseli Elephants. This particular book ends in the late 1980s, with a 1999 afterward. This is informative, but with increased tourism in Amboseli and global warming (which is melting the glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro) within the past decade, I worry that the Elephants will face future threats.

I've written hundreds of reviews for Amazon, and I don't think I've ever said this about a book, but I think Elephant Memories deserves 6 stars. It presents years of important scientific to the general public in an original, well-written, and light-hearted manner. Moss never dumbs down the science, but rather shows how it helps us understand these animals better.

If you like this book, you should definitely watch Echo and Other Elephants, a documentary hosted by David Attenborough and starring Cynthia Moss and her Elephants at Amboseli. Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures, a book by former Kenya Wildlife Services Director Richard Leaky, is also a good book to read since it discusses the Kenyan government's policies to protect Elephants and includes some of people Cynthia Moss worked with in Amboseli.

If you love this book, I highly recommend a trip to Amboseli National Park in Kenya. I visited recently and was able to get very close to these Elephants (see my pictures of them at [...]%28Kenya%29.html). Just make sure to read Elephant Memories before you go.


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Elephant Memories Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family Cynthia J Moss 9780226542379 Books Reviews

I thoroughly enjoyed this heartwarming tale. Cynthia Moss writes from her heart but never leaves the scientist out in the cold. I laughed at the tales of the antics of the elephants, cheered at their triumphs and was saddened by their hardships.
Overall a great read.
This book is for people who REALLY love elephants & their day to day existence in the wild. I didn't actually finish it, it got a bit redundant. The writings aren't in a story - it's observations of elephant families in the wild. Don't read if you want a story. Honestly, I think I enjoyed more than your average person.
What a great book this is. I am an elephant-lover, always have been, but even if you aren't I recommend this book. In fact, if you do read it, you WILL be an elephant-lover. Cynthia Moss writes so beautifully; the words just flow!!
Oh, how I loved this book. While I've always liked elephants and am a donor to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, my interest was piqued by Jodi Picoult's gorgeous Leaving Time. This book was the next logical read for me and I was not disappointed. Very accessible, fascinating, informative. I couldn't have loved it more.
Loved the relationship with the elephants...learned a lot about their behaviors.
Poor animals at the mercy of the hunters just for ivory.

so sad.
they are amazing, intelligent animals and so family loving...when they cry...OH my!!
The detailed documentation and minutiae of elephant grazing patterns was boring at times for a non-specialist like myself. However, the knowledge, dedication and world class expertise that Cynthia Moss brings to her task are both beyond incredible. Her descriptions of elephant behavior--especially estrous and musth are absolutely fascinating. Even taking into account the long descriptions and charts that are of little interest to the non-professional elephant observer, this book is beyond wonderful!

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Fantastic. A scientist who writes beautifully, and distinctly, lives near Elephant herds, and basically watches their actions, it seems like 24 hours a day. This is the real McCoy, not just a quick encounter with elephants as such, as in other books I have read.. These are intelligent, caring , and loving beings, too bad than man is so evely destructive to them.
This is the Elephant book I've been waiting for! I love Elephants and have read several books about these magnificent animals. However, most books either focus on Elephants in human history (Elephant Destiny is a good book for this), photographs (such as Karl Ammann's recent Elephant Reflections), or the memoirs of conservation biologists who study Elephants (The Elephant's Secret Sense The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa unfortunately fell into this category). Cynthia Moss' Elephant Memories Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family is different - it is 100% about Elephants, their lives, their struggles, and personalities. Aside from some essential context about her research, Moss removes herself from the narrative and tells the story of the Elephant families in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

While we know Elephants are intelligent and can communicate, we can't speak to them directly to learn about their lives. However, Cynthia Moss comes extremely close. She provides an account of Elephant life in the same way a sociologist might depict a lost human tribe. Moss gives each Elephant a name and describes his or her personality. At the beginning of the book, Moss includes a family tree of the Elephants in the book. Each chapter covers a separate topic ("Migration," "Mating," etc.). At the end of the chapter, Moss includes a list of the family members whom she discussed during that chapter so readers can follow who survived. By the end, the reader will come to know some Elephants particularly well, the "TC" and "TD" family, including Teresia and Slit Ear.

If Cynthia Moss is still writing on Elephants, I would love to see if she has any updates about the Amboseli Elephants. This particular book ends in the late 1980s, with a 1999 afterward. This is informative, but with increased tourism in Amboseli and global warming (which is melting the glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro) within the past decade, I worry that the Elephants will face future threats.

I've written hundreds of reviews for , and I don't think I've ever said this about a book, but I think Elephant Memories deserves 6 stars. It presents years of important scientific to the general public in an original, well-written, and light-hearted manner. Moss never dumbs down the science, but rather shows how it helps us understand these animals better.

If you like this book, you should definitely watch Echo and Other Elephants, a documentary hosted by David Attenborough and starring Cynthia Moss and her Elephants at Amboseli. Wildlife Wars My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures, a book by former Kenya Wildlife Services Director Richard Leaky, is also a good book to read since it discusses the Kenyan government's policies to protect Elephants and includes some of people Cynthia Moss worked with in Amboseli.

If you love this book, I highly recommend a trip to Amboseli National Park in Kenya. I visited recently and was able to get very close to these Elephants (see my pictures of them at [...]%28Kenya%29.html). Just make sure to read Elephant Memories before you go.